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

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.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2023-04-28

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/science.adf5188PMID 37104584
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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