Basal metabolic rate of endotherms can be modeled using heat-transfer principles and physiological concepts: Reply to "can the basal metabolic rate of endotherms be explained by biophysical modeling?"

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-114

  Roberts, Michael F ^a   Lightfoot, Edwin N ^b   Porter, Warren P ^c  

^a LINFIELD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BIOPHYSICS; BODY MASS; DATA SET; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENDOTHERMY; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; BODY SIZE; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BIOPHYSICS; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 78751659269     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/658084     Document Type: Article

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