Field metabolic rate and body size

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1621-1625

  Nagy, Kenneth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Bird; Doubly labeled water; Ectothermy; Endothermy; Energetics; Eutherian; FMR; Mammal; Metatherian; Phylogeny; Reptile; Scaling coefficient

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; EUTHERIA; GALLIFORMES; GEKKO; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PASSERIFORMES; PHOCIDAE; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 18944396166     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01553     Document Type: Review

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