Response to Comments on Metabolic scaling is the product of life-history optimization

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: White, Craig R.; Alton, Lesley A.; Bywater, Candice L.; Lombardi, Emily J.; Marshall, Dustin J.
• 署名单位: Monash University; Monash University; University of Queensland
• 刊物名称: SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0036-9056
• DOI: 10.1126/science.adf5188
• 发表日期: 2023-04-28
• 关键词: growth

摘要

Froese and Pauly argue that our model is contradicted by the observation that fish reproduce before their growth rate decreases. Kearney and Jusup show that our model incompletely describes growth and reproduction for some species. Here we discuss the costs of reproduction, the relationship between reproduction and growth, and propose tests of models based on optimality and constraint.