... often undergo stage-specific changes in size, complexity and duration that are predicted to modify thermal performance. Yet performance is mostly explored for adults, while performance at earlier stages that typically limit persistence remains poorly understood. Here, we experimentally isolate thermal...

... that of old pigeons, indicating that the navigational map of yearlings is still developing. Our results indicate that the map system, although functional in the first year of life, continues to become more complex – older pigeons seem to either consider more navigational factors than younger ones or at least...

...W. W. Burggren; M. G. Monticino SUMMARY Physiologists both admire and fear complexity, but we have made relatively few attempts to understand it. Inherently complex systems are more difficult to study and less predictable. However, a deeper understanding of physiological systems can be achieved...

[email protected] ) 14 3 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2005 2005 scaling power-law metabolism complexity Living entities are embedded in and constituted by, networks at any level of organization, from cells to ecosystems (e.g. Ulanowicz, 1986 ; Pahl-Wostl, 1995 ; Strogatz...

... nonlinear dynamics complexity discriminant analysis Individual differences are often sufficiently large as to make it difficult to quantify a behaviour and to distinguish its underlying components( Gotceitas and Colgan, 1988 ; Mather and Anderson, 1993 ; Wilson et al., 1993 ). However,individual...

... of some higher functions in the cerebellum and forebrain will gradually come to light. * e-mail: [email protected] 02 03 1999 21 04 1999 © 1999 by Company of Biologists 1999 electroreception electrocommunication brain organisation complexity cognition...