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The effects of age on the demography of a perennial plant depend on interactions with size and environment
<p>Age-dependence of the demographic rates survival, fecundity and individual growth is a fundamental aspect of population biological theory. Knowledge about plant ageing can also be important for conservation and agriculture as it will improve the accuracy of population viability assessments and long-term performance assessments in perennial crops. Recent studies show age effects on demographic rates for several plant species, yet much remains to be learned about the patterns and mechanisms of plant ageing, particularly about how age effects interact with the environment and with plant size.</p> <p>We collected age-and-size-based demographic data, as well as individual-based environmental data, for the perennial herb Plantago lanceolata in Denmark over three annual transitions (four years). We combined frequent field monitoring of carefully mapped individuals with the underused technique of root histology to determine age of herbaceous plants. We used generalized linear mixed effects models to assess how age, soil properties, and year influenced survival, growth, and reproduction.</p> <p>Our results show no strong evidence of consistent age declines, rather, we found mostly positive effects of age on vital rates. For all vital rates, i.e. survival, growth, flowering, and reproductive output, age effects also differed significantly among years. Additionally, we detected an interactive effect of age and size in the growth model. Size, and temporal and spatial environmental variation also affected vital rates independently of age.</p> <p>Synthesis: Our study shows that age-dependence of demographic rates can depend both on individual size and environmental variation. These results suggest that a consideration of potential age-interactions may improve the accuracy of comparative studies of ageing and population projections. Moreover, this study shows that much is still unknown about how plant ageing can be affected by the environment, and illustrates how age determination using herb chronology provides an opportunity to increase our knowledge about ageing in herbaceous plants.</p>
Fig. 1 in Size-At-Age Variability And Sexual Dimorphism Of Morphometric Characteristics In The Late Ontogenesis Of The Marsh Frog, Pelophylax Ridibundus (Anura, Ranidae), From Terrytory Of Crimea
Fig. 1. Measurement system for tailess amphibians according to the standard methods.
ODP Site 1249, ODP Site 1252, and IODP Site U1325: X-ray fluoresence core scanning, laser diffraction grain size, CNS elemental/isotopic, environmental magnetism, and age model data
<p>We present data used as part of an integrative early diagenesis study (submitted September 2022 to Marine Geology) focused on identifying zones of magnetite dissolution and pyrite precipitation in which magnetic susceptibility records are altered in gas-hydrate bearing sediments on the Cascadia Margin using archived cores from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). We analyzed the upper 85 to 100 m below seafloor (mbsf) from ODP Sites 1249 and 1252, and IODP Site U1325. ODP 1249 is at the summit of Hydrate Ridge in an area of active methane seepage and massive gas hydrate accumulations and ODP 1252 is in a nearby slope basin with little occurrence of hydrate. IODP Site U1325 is on the northern Cascadia Margin in a slope basin, with turbidite-hosted gas hydrate. We also include XRF data from the upper sections of ODP Site 1251, IODP U1327, and U1328.</p> <p>We measured X-ray fluorescence using an Avaatech core scanner at the IODP Gulf Coast Repository at Texas A&M University. We measured total carbon, total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen, and total sulfur using a Perkin Elmer 2400 Series CHNS/O Analyzer at the university of New Hampshire (ODP Site 1249 and 1252 only). A subset was analyzed for δ<sup>13</sup>C-TOC using a Costech ECS 4010 elemental analyzer interfaced with a Thermo Finnegan Delta Plus XP continuous flow isotope ratio mass spectrometer at Washington State University. Grain size was measured with a Malvern Mastersizer 2000 laser diffraction particle size analyzer and Hydro 2000G dispersal unit at the University of New Hampshire. Mass frequency-dependent magnetic susceptibility was measured using a Bartington MS2 Magnetic Susceptibility Meter and Bartington MS2B dual frequency sensor (Site U1325 only). Isothermal remanent magnetization and thermal demagnetization curves were measured using a HSM2 SQUID-based Spinner Magnetometer with an ASC Scientific IM-10-30 Impulse Magnetizer and ASC Scientific TD-48SC magnetically-shielded oven (Site U1325 only). Radiocarbon was measured on mixed planktic foraminifers at the Radiocarbon was measured at National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) facility at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (ODP Site 1252 and IODP Site U1325).. Radiocarbon ages were calibrated to calendar ages using CALIB 8.2 and the Marine20 calibration curve. For ODP Site 1252 we used a reservoir correction of 230 ± 50 years (Yaquina Bay, Oregon, USA) and for IODP Site U1325 we used a reservoir correction of 202 ± 50 years (Amphitrite Point, British Columbia, Canada). δ<sup>18</sup>O was measured on benthic foraminifer <em>Uvigerina peregrina</em> tests using a Finnegan MAT 252 isotope ratio mass spectrometer with Kiel III device at the Oregon State University Stable Isotope Laboratory (ODP 1252) and a Finnegan MAT 253 isotope ratio mass spectrometer with Kiel IV device at the University of Michigan Stable Isotope Laboratory (ODP Site 1249 and IODP Site U1325).</p>
Data from: Age dominates flight distance and duration, while body size shapes flight speed in Bombus terrestris L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
<p>Flight plays crucial role in the fitness of insect pollinators, such as bumble bees. Despite their relatively large body size compared to their wings, bumble bees can fly under difficult ambient conditions, such as cooler temperatures. While their body size is often positively linked to their foraging range and flight ability, the influence of age remains less explored. Here, we studied the flight performance (distance, duration, and speed) of aging bumble bee workers using tethered flight mills. Additionally, we measured their intertegular distance (ITD) and dry mass as proxies for their body size. We found that flight distance and duration was predominantly influenced by age, challenging assumptions that age does not play a key role in foraging and task allocation. From the age of 7 to 14 days, flight distance and duration increased six-fold and five-fold, respectively. Conversely, body size primarily impacted the maximum and average flight speed of workers. Our findings indicate that age substantially influences flight distance and duration in bumble bee workers, affecting foraging performance and potentially altering task allocation strategies. This underscores the importance of considering individual age and physiological changes alongside body size/mass in experiments involving bumble bee workers.</p>
Data from: Effects of maternal age and environmental enrichment on learning ability and brain size
<p>It is well known that maternal age at reproduction affects offspring lifespan and some other fitness-related traits, but it remains understudied whether maternal senescence affects how offspring respond to their environments. Early environment often plays a significant role in the development of an animal's behavioral phenotype. For example, complex environments can promote changes in cognitive ability and brain morphology in young animals. Here, we study whether and how maternal effect senescence influences offspring plasticity in cognition, group behavior, and brain morphology in response to environmental complexity. For this, juvenile three-spined sticklebacks from young and old mothers (i.e. 1-year and 2-years-old) were exposed to different levels of environmental enrichment and complexity (i.e. none, simple and complex), and their behavior, cognitive ability, and brain size were measured. Exposing fish to enriched conditions improved individual learning ability assessed by a repeated detour-reaching task, increased the size of the whole brain, and decreased aggressive interactions in the shoal. Maternal age did not influence the inhibitory control, learning ability, and group behavioral responses of offspring to the experimental environmental change. However, maternal age affected how some brain regions of offspring changed in response to environmental complexity. In offspring from old mothers, those exposed to the complex environment had larger telencephalons and cerebellums than those who experienced simpler environments. Our results suggest that maternal effect senescence may influence how offspring invest in brain functions related to cognition in response to environmental complexity.</p>
Fig. 4 in The Body Size, Age Structure And Growth Pattern Of The Endemic Balkan Mosor Rock Lizard (Dinarolacerta Mosorensis Kolombatović, 1886)
Fig. 4. The age distribution in subadult and adult Mosor rock lizards
Is tree age or tree size reducing height increment in Abies alba Mill. at its southernmost distribution limit?
<p>Many factors limit height increment of trees when age and size increase in large-statured tree species. Height-diameter allometric relationships are commonly used measures of tree growth.</p> <p>The data were collected in a silver fir forest located in Southern Italy, at the southernmost distribution limit for this species. Through a stratified random sampling, 100 trees were selected. All the selected trees were then felled and the total tree height, height increments (internode distances), diameter at breast height, and diameter increments (ring widths) were measured.</p> <p>Conventional methods for estimating the current annual increment of stand volume are based on the uncertain assumption that height increment decreases with tree age. Conversely, size, rather than age, should be accounted for the observed senescence-related declines in relative growth rate and, consequently, implemented in silvicultural manuals. Results stem from a study on Abies alba Mill. at its southern limit of distribution.</p>
Figure 2 in The first record of age structure and body size of the Suphan Racerunner, Eremias suphani Başoğlu & Hellmich, 1968
Figure 2. Age structure of the population of Suphan Racerunner E. suphani from eastern Turkey.
Figure. Location of Beymelek Lagoon in southern Turkey. in Prevalence and intensity of parasitic helminths of thicklip grey mullet Chelon labrosus in hosts in Beymelek Lagoon Lake in Antalya, Turkey, according to season, host size, age, and sex of the host
Figure. Location of Beymelek Lagoon in southern Turkey.
Particle-size distribution of Iberian unfired potsherds from the Late Iron Age
<p>This data set contains 38 particle-size distributions (PSD) of unfired potsherds from the Iberian workshop of the Mas de Moreno (Teruel, Spain). The distributions were obtained by laser diffraction.</p> <p><strong>Method</strong></p> <p>The PSDs were measured using a LA-950V2 (HORIBA) laser granulometer.</p> <p>All the samples were pre-treated with hydrogen peroxide to remove organic matter. The samples were then dispersed in water using sodium hexametaphosphate and ultrasonication.</p> <p>The PSDs were calculated using the Mie solution to Maxwell's equation, with 1.33 as the water refractive index and 1.55-0.1i as the sediment refractive index.</p> <p><strong>Data description</strong></p> <ul> <li><em>sample:</em> sample reference;</li> <li><em>date:</em> date of the analysis;</li> <li><em>laboratory:</em> analysis laboratory;</li> <li><em>H2O2:</em> has the sample been pre-treated with hydrogen peroxide?</li> <li><em>HCl:</em> has the sample been pre-treated with chloridic acid?</li> <li><em>HMP:</em> has the sample been dispersed with sodium hexametaphosphate?</li> <li><em>ultrasonication:</em> duration of ultrasonic dispersion (seconds);</li> <li><em>0.011</em> to <em>3000.000: </em>relative amount (percent) for the given grain size (micrometers).</li> </ul>
Colonial coral resilience by decreasing size: reaction to increased detrital influx during onset of the late Palaeozoic Ice Age
<p><span>Modern coral reefs and associated biodiversity are severely threatened by increasing terrestrial runoff. Similar scenarios could be suspected for geological times, but reef coral resilience is still an enigma. In late Visean</span><span>-</span><span>Serpukhovian (Mississippian foraminiferal zones/MFZ 14-16) times, a major glaciation phase of the late Palaeozoic Ice Age (LPIA) associated with enhanced terrestrial weathering and runoff coincides with a biodiversity crisis and coral reef decline. In this study, the impact of enhanced terrestrial runoff is tested on size variations of colonial corals <em>Aulina rotiformis</em> and <em>Lithostrotion decipiens</em> along a gradient of contemporaneous (Serpukhovian) open marine carbonate to nearshore siliciclastic facies in South China. Along this gradient, their sizes decrease from carbonate, through intermediate carbonate-siliciclastic, to siliciclastic facies. This is consistent with increasing abundance of terrestrial materials of high silicon, aluminium, and phosphorus values. On a larger million</span><span>-</span><span>year</span><span>-</span><span>long interval (MFZ14-16) and for several palaeocontinents, size data of <em>Lithostrotion decipiens</em> and <em>Siphonodendron pauciradiale</em> show a distinct decline in late Visean, when enhanced terrestrial weathering occurred commonly with palaeosols developed during regression. This suggests that terrestrial sediment and nutrient input may have mainly controlled phenotypic plasticity in Mississippian reef corals, with a decrease in size as a component of resilience across the LPIA onset.</span></p>
Age Structure and Body Size of The Tibetan Toad (Bufo tibetanus) Populations from Two Different Altitudes in China
<p>Knowledge about the altitudinal patterns in age and body size helps to highlight the evolution of life history parameters in animals. In this study, we investigated the demographic traits of the Tibetan toad (<em>Bufo tibetanus</em>) between populations from low and high altitude habitats (2650 <em>vs</em> 3930m) using skeletochronology. We found 1) the mean age and body size of females were significantly greater than those of males in either population; 2) both sexes of toads from the higher altitude tended to be significantly older in age and larger in body size; 3) a significant positive relationship between age and body size within each sex of the toad at both altitudes; 4) growth rates varied between the two populations, with the higher rate observed in the low-altitude population, and lower in the high-altitude population. Our results suggest that factors other than age can influence altitudinal patterns in body size, such as altitude-associated temperature. Future research should pay attention to these factors and evaluate their influences on the growth patterns of animals.Knowledge about the altitudinal patterns in age and body size helps to highlight the evolution of life history parameters in animals. In this study, we investigated the demographic traits of the Tibetan toad (<em>Bufo tibetanus</em>) between populations from low and high altitude habitats (2650 <em>vs</em> 3930m) using skeletochronology. We found 1) the mean age and body size of females were significantly greater than those of males in either population; 2) both sexes of toads from the higher altitude tended to be significantly older in age and larger in body size; 3) a significant positive relationship between age and body size within each sex of the toad at both altitudes; 4) growth rates varied between the two populations, with the higher rate observed in the low-altitude population, and lower in the high-altitude population. Our results suggest that factors other than age can influence altitudinal patterns in body size, such as altitude-associated temperature. Future research should pay attention to these factors and evaluate their influences on the growth patterns of animals.</p>
Mini-sized MCE for Detection of Small Bowel in Children Under the Age of 10 Years
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT05522101. IPD Sharing: YES. Countries: 1. Publications: 17.
Data from: Age dominates flight distance and duration, while body size shapes flight speed in Bombus terrestris L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
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The effects of age on the demography of a perennial plant depend on interactions with size and environment
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Data from: Effects of maternal age and environmental enrichment on learning ability and brain size
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Data from: Age-dependent hypopharyngeal gland size and protein content of stingless bee workers, Tetragonula pagdeni.
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Incubation period length varies with temperature, female age, and clutch size in Protonotaria citrea (Prothonotary Warblers)
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Colonial coral resilience by decreasing size: reaction to increased detrital influx during onset of the late Palaeozoic Ice Age
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Direction and magnitude of natural selection on body size differs among age classes of seaward migrating Pacific salmon
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