Can the basal metabolic rate of endotherms be explained by biophysical modeling? Response to "a new model for the body size-metabolism relationship"

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-110

  Seymour, Roger S ^a   White, Craig R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALLOMETRY; BIOPHYSICS; BODY SIZE; 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: 78751671266     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/658083     Document Type: Article

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