Meeting Abstract 74-2  Sunday, Jan. 6 08:15 – 08:30  Morphological Drivers of Physiological Performance in Lungless Salamanders JOHNSON, B*; SEARLE, J; SPARKS, J; Cornell University; Cornell University; Cornell University bbj23@cornell.edu The relationship between body size and whole-organism metabolic rate is one of the best documented physiological patterns across the tree of life. However, cell size also influences […]

Meeting Abstract 74-3  Sunday, Jan. 6 08:30 – 08:45  Mechanisms underlying sex-specific mortality in Pacific salmon ELIASON, EJ; University of California, Santa Barbara erika.eliason@lifesci.ucsb.edu http://erikaeliason.com Thermal tolerance can vary widely across individuals of the same species. For example, our research has shown that thermal tolerance differs across populations, over the life history, and between sexes in Pacific […]

Meeting Abstract 74-7  Sunday, Jan. 6 09:15 – 09:30  Ecological lifestyles and the scaling of shark gill surface area BIGMAN, JS*; PARDO, SA; PRINZING, TS; WEGNER, NC; DULVY, NK; Earth to Ocean Research Group, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada; Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; Earth to Ocean Research Group, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, […]