Animal Ecophysiology

Isometric scaling

Allometric scaling

Positive allometry

Negative allometry

Kleiber’s Law

As animals get bigger...

Water balance

Iso-osmotic

Hypo-osmotic

Hyper-osmotic

Dealing with environmental change

Earyhaline

Sterohaline

Urea

TMAO

Marine animals

Freshwater animals

Terrestrial animals

Biochemical effects of rising temperature on animals bodies

Responses to temperature changes
Short-term enzyme activity can be modified with changing temperature by:

Responses to temperature changes:
Medium-term and Long-term enzyme activity can be modified with changing temperature by:

Eurythermal

Stenothermal

Strategies for dealing with freezing:
Freeze tolerance

Strategies for dealing with freezing:
Freeze intolerance (avoidance)

High temperature may disrupt reaction pathways:
causes of heat death:

Ectotherms

Endotherms

Sources of heat transfer:

Conduction

Convection

Radiation

Keeping warm:

Keeping cool:

Asexual reproduction

Sexual reproduction

Semelparity

Iteroparous

Life history theory

r selected species

K selected species

A Selection

Central concept of life histories

Resource allocation
(Life history)