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Wolf U. Blanckenhorn
Researcher at University of Zurich
Publications - 191
Citations - 10461
Wolf U. Blanckenhorn is an academic researcher from University of Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Scathophaga stercoraria & Sexual selection. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 182 publications receiving 9443 citations. Previous affiliations of Wolf U. Blanckenhorn include Concordia University Wisconsin & State University of New York System.
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The evolution of body size: what keeps organisms small?
TL;DR: A review of the literature indicates a substantial lack of empirical evidence for these various mechanisms and highlights the need for experimental studies that specifically address the fitness costs of being large at the ecological, physiological, and genetic levels.
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Bergmann and converse bergmann latitudinal clines in arthropods: two ends of a continuum?
TL;DR: This study provides a synthesis to the controversy about the importance of Bergmann's rule and the converse Bergmann rule in nature, and argues that they are not mutually exclusive because they are driven by different environmental causes and proximate mechanisms.
Sex, size, and gender roles : evolutionary studies of sexual size dimorphism
TL;DR: This chapter discusses macro-patterns, which are used in medicine and other fields to describe broad-scale variations in behaviour of animals and plants.
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Behavioral Causes and Consequences of Sexual Size Dimorphism
TL;DR: Taking the approach that SSD results as an epiphenomenon from separate but related selection on male and female body size, the advantages and disadvantages of large size in terms of the standard components of individual fitness are discussed to help guiding future research on the subject.
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Sex, Size and Gender Roles
TL;DR: In this article, a female Argiope aurantia is waiting for a morning meal in a dry grass of a California meadow, the taut trajectory of an orb web catching the early morning sun.