The broad-scale ecology of energy expenditure of endotherms

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 310-318

  Anderson, Kristina J ^a   Jetz, Walter ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Day length; Doubly labelled water; Energetics; Field metabolic rate; Latitude; Mammals; Metabolic niche; Net primary production; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; ENDOTHERMY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; METABOLISM; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 15444364412     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00723.x     Document Type: Article

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