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Lectures at Conference Centre Athena

Doctoral School of Earth sciences and Ecology offers you the opportunity to particpate in the following presentations at Conference Centre Athena (Tartu, Küütri 1) in the framework of the conference "Thermadapt Science meeting: Evolutionary and plastic responses of animal growth to different temperatures: adaptations and constraints". 

Thrusday, April 28

 9.00. - David Atkinson (U of Liverpool). A fresh look at relationships between temperature, body size and biological rates

10.00. - Jeff Arendt (U of California). Reproductive allometry and the temperature-size rule; being bigger in the cold is adaptive for some, but not all

11.20. Karl Gotthard (U of Stockholm). The evolution of body size and alternative developmental pathways in temperate butterflies

12.20. Toomas Tammaru (U of Tartu). Determination of body size in Lepidoptera: looking for constraints

 

Saturday, April 30

9.00. - Alexander Shingleton (Michigan State U).  The thermal regulation of body and organ size: a developmental perspective

10.00. - Neil Metcalfe (U of Glasgow). Long-term fitness consequences of temperature-induced changes in growth trajectory in fish

11.20. - Shai Meiri (Tel Aviv U). What kind of thermal regime does lizard evolve to meet?

12.20. Robby Stoks (U of Leuven). A role for physiological constraints in the latitudinal differentiation of thermal growth reaction norms?


For more information see: http://www.geoeco.ut.ee/et/988699

Toomas Tammaru

professor of zoology

http://www.ut.ee/~tammarut