Controlling for body mass effects: Is part-whole correlation important?

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 250-253

  Christians, Julian K ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOMETRY; BODY MASS; ENERGY METABOLISM; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; ENERGY METABOLISM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033366687     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/316661     Document Type: Note

References (14)

1. Atchley W.R., C.T. Gaskins, and D. Andersen. 1976. Statistical properties of ratios. I. Empirical results. Syst Zool 25:137-148.
2. Bennett A.F. 1987. Interindividual variability: an underutilized resource. Pp. 147-166 in M.E. Feder, A.F. Bennett, W.W. Burggren, and R.B. Huey, eds. New Directions in Ecological Physiology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
3. Burness G.P., R.C. Ydenberg, and P.W. Hochachka. 1998. Interindividual variability in body composition and resting oxygen consumption rate in breeding tree swallows, Tachycineta bicolor, Physiol Zool 71:247-256.
4. Daan S., D. Masman, and A. Groenewold. 1990. Avian basal metabolic rates: their association with body composition and energy expenditure in nature. Am J Physiol 259:R333-R340.
5. Hammond K.A., M, Konarzewski, R.M. Torres, and J. Diamond. 1994. Metabolic ceilings under a combination of peak energy demands. Physiol Zool 67:1479-1506.
6. Hayes J.P. and J.S. Shonkwiler. 1996. Analyzing mass-independent data. Physiol Zool 69:974-980.
7. Jackson D.A. and K.M. Somers. 1991. The spectre of "spurious" correlations. Oecologia 86:147-151.
8. Konarzewski M. and J. Diamond. 1995. Evolution of basal metabolic rate and organ masses in laboratory mice. Evolution 49:1239-1248.
9. LaBarbera M. 1989. Analyzing body size as a factor in ecology and evolution. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 20:97-117.
10. Packard G.C. and T.J. Boardman. 1987. The misuse of ratios to scale physiological data that vary allometrically with body size. Pp. 216-236 in M.E. Feder, A.F. Bennett, W.W. Burggren, and R.B. Huey, eds. New Directions in Ecological Physiology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
11. Prothero J. 1986. Methodological aspects of scaling in biology. J Theor Biol 118:259-286.
12. Sokal R.R. and F.J. Rohlf. 1995. Biometry. 3d ed. Freeman, New York.
13. Steel R.G.D. and J.H. Torrie. 1980. Principles and Procedures of Statistics: A Biometrical Approach. McGraw-Hill, New York.
14. Tracy C.R. and J. Sugar. 1989. Potential misuse of ANCOVA: comment on Packard and Boardman. Physiol Zool 62:993-997.