Do insect metabolic rates at rest and during flight scale with body mass?

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 346-349

  Niven, Jeremy E ^a   Scharlemann, Jörn P W ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; Flight metabolic rate; Insect; Resting metabolic rate

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ALLOMETRY; BODY MASS; FLIGHT; METABOLISM;

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FLYING; INSECT; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING;

AVES; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 25444497780     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0311     Document Type: Article

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