Field Metabolic Rate
Thyroid hormones correlate with field metabolic rate in ponies, Equus ferus caballus
... well known in homeotherms, while there is a gap of knowledge in the relationship with field metabolic rate (FMR). There are only two studies on birds examining the relationship between THs and FMR ...
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Field metabolic rate and body size
... The scaling coefficients, or allometric slopes, of the conventional linear regressions are useful for several reasons. First, there are theoretical arguments suggesting that all FMR, BMR (basal) and SMR (standard) slopes ...
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An increase in minimum metabolic rate and not activity explains field metabolic rate changes in a breeding seabird
... The field metabolic rate (FMR) of a free-ranging animal can be considered as the sum of its maintenance costs (minimum metabolic rate, MMR) and additional costs associated with ...
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Heart rate as a predictor of metabolic rate in heterothermic bats
... basal metabolic rate (BMR) in resting animals under thermo-neutral conditions, and it is often assumed to be proportional to field metabolic rate ...
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Seasonal daily, daytime and night time field metabolic rates in Arabian babblers (Turdoides squamiceps)
... Night-time field metabolic rates per hour were similar between breeding and nonbreeding babblers, which supported our hypothesis, and ranged between ...night-time field metabolic rate ...
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Free swimming northern elephant seals have low field metabolic rates that are sensitive to an increased cost of transport
... low field metabolic costs that approach predictions of mammalian basal metabolism with increasing age; (2) the effect of each individual flipper stroke on fuel reserves decreases as seals mature; (3) the ...
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Diving and foraging energetics of the smallest marine mammal, the sea otter (Enhydra lutris)
... the metabolic rates resulting from prolonged foraging sessions by sea otters has been ...a field metabolic rate for free-ranging otters that was compared to values reported for other ...
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Saving energy during hard times: energetic adaptations of Shetland pony mares
... Recent results suggest that wild Northern herbivores reduce their metabolism during times of low ambient temperature and food shortage in order to reduce their energetic needs. It is, however, not known whether ...
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Crying a river: how much salt laden jelly can a leatherback turtle really eat?
... feeding rate [50% body mass day −1 (on Rhizostoma pulmo) and 73% body mass day −1 (on Cyanea capillata)] have been criticised as too ...leatherback field metabolic rate, body fluid composition ...
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Sex differences in fuel use and metabolism during development in fasting juvenile northern elephant seals
... development, metabolic strategies for fuel use have the potential to influence future reproductive success by directly impacting somatic growth and acquisition of traits required for successful ...with ...
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Energy Partitioning in Fish: The Activityrelated Cost of Osmoregulation in a Euryhaline Cichlid
... Our experiments demonstrate that differences in the slope relating metabolic rate to swimming speed, and in the net cost of swimming at a particular speed total metabolic rate swimming m[r] ...
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Metabolic scaling: consensus or controversy?
... supply rate; metabolic activity depends on encounter frequency not ...flow rate increases with the cell's metabolic activity, as Hochachka [93] cogently ...flow rate in the network: ...
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Heart rate and energy expenditure of incubating wandering albatrosses: basal levels, natural variation, and the effects of human disturbance
... natural field conditions (Woakes et al., 1995). Thus, the metabolic rates of specific activities such as egg incubation or chick brooding in the field can be estimated by comparing the HR values of ...
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Scaling of resting and maximum hopping metabolic rate throughout the life cycle of the locust Locusta migratoria
... Metabolic rate generally follows an allometric relationship with body mass, such that small animals consume more energy per unit body mass than large animals over a given period of time (Savage et ...the ...
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Low global sensitivity of metabolic rate to temperature in calcified marine invertebrates
... enters metabolic depression at temperatures above 35 °C as an energy-saving strategy during periods of extreme high temperatures (Marshall and McQuaid 2011; Marshall et ...
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Metabolic function in Drosophila melanogaster in response to hypoxia and pure oxygen
... The metabolic rate of flies exposed to 5 h of graded hypoxia, including 45 min of anoxia, quickly returned to near pre-hypoxic levels after reintroduction of normoxic conditions ...the metabolic ...
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Honeybee flight metabolic rate: does it depend upon air temperature?
... track ambient temperature in shade. WBF was not recorded. Bees were kept airborne by administering chamber agitation only when they attempted to land. Behavior, as recorded in field notes and by markers in the ...
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Energetics of nestling growth and parental effort in Antarctic fulmarine petrels
... measure field metabolic rates of adults (three species) and different-aged nestlings (four species) of Antarctic fulmarine petrels in the Rauer Islands, East Antarctica: Antarctic fulmar Fulmarus ...
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Metabolic rate controls respiratory pattern in insects
... In summary, the respiratory pattern employed by an insect is affected by three factors. The length of the closed phase is (1) positively correlated with the partial pressure of oxygen in the atmosphere surrounding the ...
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Thermal physiological traits and plasticity of metabolism are sensitive to biogeographic breaks in a rock pool marine shrimp
... on metabolic rate, whilst taking into account that each individual was acclimated and measured at both 14 and 20°C, and that individuals from different localities were captured and measured in different ...
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