Mammalian metabolic allometry: Do intraspecific variation, phylogeny, and regression models matter?

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 720-733

  Sieg, Annette E ^a   O'Connor, Michael P ^a   McNair, James N ^b   Grant, Bruce W ^c   Agosta, Salvatore J ^d   Dunham, Arthur E ^e  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WIDENER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Body size; Mammal; Metabolic rate; Phylogeny; Regression

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY MASS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLASSIFICATION; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 72449121944     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/606023     Document Type: Article

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