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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Sample size and mass range effects on the allometric exponent of basal metabolic rate |
Author: | White, C. Seymour, R. |
Citation: | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology, 2005; 142(1):74-78 |
Publisher: | Elsevier Science Inc |
Issue Date: | 2005 |
ISSN: | 1095-6433 1531-4332 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Craig R. White and Roger S. Seymour |
Abstract: | The controversial relationship between body mass and basal metabolic rate in animals revolves around two questions: what is the allometric scaling exponent and what is the functional basis for it? For mammals, the first question could be resolved if measurements from all 4600 extant species were available, but this study shows that data for only 150 species, spanning three to four orders of magnitude variation in body mass, are sufficient to accurately determine the exponent. Because the currently available data set includes about 600 species that vary over five orders of magnitude in body size, further increases in sample size are unlikely to change the estimate of the scaling exponent. |
Keywords: | Allometry Basal metabolic rate Body mass Mammalia Mass range Sample size Scaling |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cbpa.2005.07.013 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2005.07.013 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Earth and Environmental Sciences publications |
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