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Article: A special issue of the Journal of Orthoptera Research devoted to Body Size in Orthoptera.(Editorial)
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- Journal of Orthoptera Research
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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[DWW] 4120 Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, 61790, USA. Email: dwwhitm@ilstu.edu [SEV] Department of Natural, Information, and Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University, Kokomo, Indiana, 46902, USA. Email: sevince1@hotmail.com
Size is perhaps the most conspicuous feature of an organism, and has profound effects on nearly every aspect of organismal design, behavior, and function (Peters 1983, Schmidt-Nielsen 1984, Brown & West 2000, Dial et al. 2008). Across the tree of life, organisms span an impressive 21 orders of magnitude in size, ranging from mycoplasmas ([10.sup.-13] g) to blue whales ([10.sup.8] g) ...