Publications

C. Stocker, S. Bamford, M. Jahn, G. Mazué, A.K. Pettersen, D. Ritchie, A. Rubin, D.W.A. Noble, F. Seebacher (2025). Temperature variability has limited effects on phenotypic plasticity in ectotherms — a meta-analysis. Ecology Letters.

C. Stocker, S. Bamford, M. Jahn, G. Mazué, A.K. Pettersen, D. Ritchie, A. Rubin, D.W.A. Noble, F. Seebacher (2024). The effect of temperature variability on biological responses of ectothermic animals – a meta-analysis. Ecology Letters. 27(9), e14511.

K.N. Fergusson, J.L. Tanner, J.A. Brand, S.L. Hannington, A.K. Pettersen, J. Sundin, M. Saaristo, M.G. Bertram, J.M. Martin , B.B.M. Wong (2024). Effects of long-term fluoxetine exposure on morphology, but not behaviour or metabolic rate, in male guppies (Poecilia reticulata), Aquatic Toxicology.

R.J. Veenhof, M.A. Coleman, C. Champion, S.A. Dworjanyn, R. Venhuizen, L. Kearns, E.M. Marzinelli, A.K. Pettersen (2024). Novel high-throughput oxygen saturation measurements for quantifying the physiological performance of macroalgal early life stages. Journal of Phycology. 00, 1-12.

M.R. Miñano, T. Uller, A.K. Pettersen, N. Nord, L.J. Fitzpatrick, G.M. While (2024). Sexual color ornamentation, microhabitat choice, and thermal physiology in the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology. 1-12.

A.K. Pettersen and N.B Metcalfe (2024). Consequences of the cost of living: is variation in metabolic rate evolutionarily significant? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. PDF

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A.K. Pettersen, N.B Metcalfe, and F. Seebacher (2024). Intergenerational plasticity aligns with temperature-dependent selection on offspring metabolic rates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. PDF

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A.K. Pettersen, A. Nord, G.M. While, T. Uller (2023). How do fluctuating temperatures alter the cost of development? Functional Ecology. PDF

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A.K. Pettersen, N. Feiner, D.W.A. Noble, G. While, T. Uller and C.K. Cornwallis (2023). Maternal behavioural thermoregulation facilitated evolutionary  transitions from egg laying to live birth. Evolution Letters. PDF

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A.K. Pettersen, S. Ruuskanen, A. Nord, J.F. Nilsson, M.R. Minano, L.J. Fitzpatrick, G.M. While, T. Uller (2023). Population divergence in maternal investment and embryo energy use and allocation suggests adaptive responses to cool climates. Journal of Animal Ecology. PDF

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N.B. Metcalfe, J. Bellman, P. Bize, A. Crespel, N.J. Dawson, …, A.K. Pettersen, …, P. Monahan (2023). Solving the conundrum of intra-specific variation in metabolic rate: A multidisciplinary conceptual and methodological toolkit. BioEssays. 45 (6). PDF

J. Harrison, A. Biewener, J.R. Bernhardt, J.R. Burger, J.H. Brown, Z.N. Coto, M.E. Duell, M. Lynch, E. Moffet, T. Norin, A.K. Pettersen, F. Smith, U.S. Somjee, J.F.A. Traniello, T. Williams (2022). White paper: An integrated perspective on the causes of hypometric metabolic scaling in animals. Integrative and Comparative Biology.

A.K. Pettersen, L. Schuster, N.B. Metcalfe (2022). The evolution of offspring size: a metabolic scaling perspective. Integrative and Comparative Biology. icac076. PDF

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Gipson, S.A.Y., A.K. Pettersen, L. Heffernan, M.D. Hall (2022). Host sex modulates the energetics of pathogen proliferation and its dependence on environmental resources. American Naturalist. 199 (5), 186-196. PDF

A.K. Pettersen, M.A. Coleman, G. Latombe, S.Vadillo Gonzalez, N. Williams, J. Seymour, A.H. Campbell, T. Thomas, R. Ferrari, R.D. Stuart-Smith, G.J. Edgar, P.D. Steinberg, E.M. Marzinelli (2022). Spatial compositional turnover varies with trophic level and body size in marine assemblages of micro- and macroorganisms. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31, 1556-1570. PDF

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A.K. Pettersen, E.M. Marzinelli, P.D. Steinberg, M.A. Coleman (2021). Impact of marine protected areas on temporal stability of fish species diversity. Conservation Biology.
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A.K. Pettersen (2020). Countergradient variation in reptiles: thermal sensitivity of developmental and metabolic rates across locally adapted populations. Frontiers in Physiology. 11:547. PDF

A.K. Pettersen, M.D. Hall, C.R. White, and D.J. Marshall (2020). Metabolic rate, context-dependent selection, and the competition-colonisation trade-off. Evolution Letters. 4, 333-344. PDF

D.J. Marshall, A.K. Pettersen, M. Bode, and C.R. White. (2020). Developmental Cost Theory predicts thermal environment and vulnerability to global warming. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4 (3), 406-411. PDF

A.K. Pettersen, C.R. White, R.J. Bryson-Richardson, and D.J. Marshall (2019). Linking life-history theory and metabolic theory explains the offspring size-temperature relationship. Ecology Letters. 22, 518-526. PDF

D.J. Marshall, A.K. Pettersen, and H. Cameron (2018). A global synthesis of the eco-evolutionary dynamics of offspring size variation. Functional Ecology. 32 (6), 1436-1446. PDF

A.K. Pettersen, C.R. White, and D.J. Marshall (2018). Understanding variation in metabolic rate. Journal of Experimental Biology. 221, 1. PDF

A.K. Pettersen, C.R. White, R.J. Bryson-Richardson, and D.J. Marshall (2017). Does the cost of development scale allometrically with offspring size? Functional Ecology. 00, 1-11. PDF

L. Gimenez, G. Torres, A.K. Pettersen, M.T. Burrows, A. Estevez, and S.R. Jenkins (2017). Scale-dependent natural variation in larval nutrition reserves in a marine
invertebrate: implications for recruitment and cross-ecosystem coupling. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 570, 141-155. PDF

A.K. Pettersen, C.R. White, and D.J. Marshall (2016). Metabolic rate covaries with fitness and the pace of the life history in the field. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283 (1831), 20160323. PDF

G. Torres, L. Gimenez, A.K. Pettersen, M. Bue, M.T. Burrows, and S.R. Jenkins (2016). Persistent and context-dependent effects of the larval feeding environment on
post-metamorphic performance through the adult stage.  Marine Ecology Progress Series. 545, 147-160. PDF

A.K. Pettersen, C.R. White, and D.J. Marshall (2015). Why does offspring size affect performance? Integrating metabolic scaling with life-history theory. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 282 (1819), 20151946. PDF

A.K. Pettersen, G.M Turchini, S. Jahangard, B.A Ingram, and C.D.H Sherman (2010). Effects of different dietary microalgae on survival, growth, settlement and fatty acid composition of blue mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) larvae. Aquaculture. 309 (1). PDF