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D-Index
43
Citations
12132
World Ranking
5203
National Ranking
563

Best Publications

  • Temperature and Organism Size—A Biological Law for Ectotherms?

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  • Why are organisms usually bigger in colder environments? Making sense of a life history puzzle.

    David Atkinson;Richard M. Sibly

  • Warming-induced reductions in body size are greater in aquatic than terrestrial species.

    Jack Forster;Andrew G. Hirst;David Atkinson

  • Protists decrease in size linearly with temperature: ca. 2.5% degrees C(-1).

    David A. Atkinson;Benjamin J. Ciotti;David. J.S. Montagnes

  • The intraspecific scaling of metabolic rate with body mass in fishes depends on lifestyle and temperature.

    Shaun S. Killen;David Atkinson;David Atkinson;Douglas S. Glazier

  • EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON THE SIZE OF AQUATIC ECTOTHERMS: EXCEPTIONS TO THE GENERAL RULE

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  • The Impact of Climate Change on Fertility

    Benjamin S. Walsh;Steven R. Parratt;Ary A. Hoffmann;David Atkinson

  • Rapid evolution of thermal tolerance in the water flea Daphnia

    AN Geerts;J Vanoverbeke;B Vanschoenwinkel;W Van Doorslaer

  • Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature-size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen.

    Wilco C.E.P. Verberk;David Atkinson;K. Natan Hoefnagel;K. Natan Hoefnagel;Andrew G. Hirst;Andrew G. Hirst

  • Temperature‐size responses match latitudinal‐size clines in arthropods, revealing critical differences between aquatic and terrestrial species

    Curtis R. Horne;Andrew. G. Hirst;Andrew. G. Hirst;David Atkinson

  • Ectotherm life-history responses to developmental temperature

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  • How important is climate? Effects of warming, nutrient addition and fish on phytoplankton in shallow lake microcosms

    Brian Moss;D. Mckee;D. Atkinson;S. E. Collings

  • How rearing temperature affects optimal adult size in ectotherms

    R. M. Sibly;D. Atkinson

  • Global warming and eutrophication: effects on water chemistry and autotrophic communities in experimental hypertrophic shallow lake mesocosms

    Heidrun Feuchtmayr;Heidrun Feuchtmayr;Rebecca Moran;Keith Hatton;Les Connor

  • Predicting marine phytoplankton maximum growth rates from temperature: Improving on the Eppley curve using quantile regression

    Jan E. Bissinger;David J. S. Montagnes;Jonathan harples;David Atkinson

  • From cells to colonies: at what levels of body organization does the ‘temperature-size rule’ apply?

    David Atkinson;Simon A. Morley;Roger N. Hughes

  • Ecological influences and morphological correlates of resting and maximal metabolic rates across teleost fish species

    Shaun S. Killen;Douglas S. Glazier;Enrico L. Rezende;Timothy D. Clark;Timothy D. Clark

  • Response of freshwater microcosm communities to nutrients, fish, and elevated temperature during winter and summer

    D. McKee;D. Atkinson;S. E. Collings;J. W. Eaton

  • Body Size: The Structure and Function of Aquatic Ecosystems: The Structure and Function of Aquatic Ecosystems

    Alan G. Hildrew;David G. Raffaelli;Ronni Edmonds-Brown

  • Effects of simulated climate warming on macrophytes in freshwater microcosm communities

    Dermot Mckee;Keith Hatton;John W Eaton;David Atkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastien Ourselin
Sebastien Ourselin King's College London
Simon R. Arridge
Simon R. Arridge University College London
Brian Hutton
Brian Hutton Ottawa Hospital
David J. Hawkes
David J. Hawkes University College London
Claudia Prieto
Claudia Prieto Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Andrew G. Hirst
Andrew G. Hirst University of Liverpool
Tom Vercauteren
Tom Vercauteren King's College London
Daniel C. Alexander
Daniel C. Alexander University College London
Steve Halligan
Steve Halligan University College London
Martin O. Leach
Martin O. Leach Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

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