Experimental Analysis of Allocation during Larval Development in Ambystomatid Salamanders.

We examined how variation in food availability and temperature influences patterns of energy allocation to growth, storage, metamorphosis, and reproduction in larval and . In each species, an allocation vector consisting of metamorphic size, duration of larval period, fat body mass, and gonad mass was influenced by both food and temperature. Larvae grew rapidly at high food levels and high temperature, and delayed metamorphosis when grown at low temperature.