metabolic rate
Low global sensitivity of metabolic rate to temperature in calcified marine invertebrates
... 2000). Metabolic rate is a key component of energy budgets and investiga- tions into its scaling with morphology and temperature have been extensive (Heusner 1985; Bergmann 1847), with global comparisons ...
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Limits to sustainable human metabolic rate
... sustained metabolic scope. The average daily metabolic rate of the men exposed to a 31-day simulated stay at several altitudes up to the peak of Mount Everest, as described above, was higher than ...
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Genotype by temperature interactions in the metabolic rate of the Glanville fritillary butterfly
... The Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia L.) is a north- temperate butterfly with a geographical distribution ranging from west Europe to south Siberia (Tolman and Levington, 1997). The species and its ...
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Understanding variation in metabolic rate
... Resting metabolic rate (as defined earlier) is perhaps the most widely measured physiological ...Resting metabolic rate is repeatable (Nespolo and Franco, 2007; White and Kearney, 2013; Auer ...
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The impact of disease and diet on the metabolic rate, swimming performance and recovery of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L )
... List of Abbreviations AGD Amoebic gill disease EPOC Excess post exercise oxygen consumption MO2 Metabolic rate MO2 rout Routine metabolic rate MO2 max Maximum metabolic rate RR Recovery [r] ...
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Field metabolic rate and body size
... non-marine species. Regarding diet specialization and foraging mode, carnivorous mammals scale differently (significantly higher slope; 0.85) than non-carnivore mammals, seed-eating birds (granivores) have relatively low ...
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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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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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An increase in minimum metabolic rate and not activity explains field metabolic rate changes in a breeding seabird
... intrinsic metabolic rates such as liver and kidney, possibly as an adaptive strategy to reduce energetic costs, or in response to a requirement for more undigested food to be transferred to ...in metabolic ...
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Scaling of resting and maximum hopping metabolic rate throughout the life cycle of the locust Locusta migratoria
... maximum metabolic rate (MMR) than it is to ...that metabolic rate arises due to scaling of resource delivery, it is under conditions of maximum activity that this is most likely to apply ...
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Repeatability of standard metabolic rate, active metabolic rate and aerobic scope in young brown trout during a period of moderate food availability
... of metabolic rates and concluded that, in biological terms, metabolic rate could be considered a repeatable trait and that no additional studies on repeatability were needed (Nespolo and Franco, ...
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Honeybee flight metabolic rate: does it depend upon air temperature?
... Because metabolic rate values in our primary data set were overall about 15% lower, raising the possibility of seasonal or colony effects (reviewed in Harrison and Fewell, 2002), these supplementary ...
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Metabolic rate scaling, ventilation patterns and respiratory water loss in red wood ants: activity drives ventilation changes, metabolic rate drives water loss
... Metabolic rate and its relationship with body size is a fundamental determinant of many life history traits and potentially of organismal ...the metabolic rate of insects is linked to distinct ...
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Standard metabolic rate at the surface and during trained submersions in adult California sea lions (Zalophus californianus)
... conflicting metabolic demands have inspired many investigations into the underlying physiological mechanisms that govern ...physiology, metabolic rate (MR), has been difficult to ...
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BASAL METABOLIC RATE IN OBESE CHILDREN
... NYH. Comparison of basal metabolism of 2 groups of obese children as calculated by Child Research Council and Mayo standards for cal/hr/sq. referred to age... Effect of degree of obesity[r] ...
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Do seasonal changes in metabolic rate facilitate changes in diving behaviour?
... The DLs used in the present study were designed by one of the authors (A.J.W.) and were the same instruments (Mk 3a, Mk 3b) used to study year-round diving behaviour of macaroni penguins (Green et al., in press a). Mk 3a ...
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Heat dissipation does not suppress an immune response in laboratory mice divergently selected for basal metabolic rate (BMR)
... We used Swiss-Webster mice (Mus musculus Linnaeus 1758) subjected to long-term artificial selection protocols to generate high and low BM-corrected BMR line types, as described previously (Ksia ̨ z ̇ ek et al., 2004). ...
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Energy metabolism of eucalyptus boring beetles at rest and during locomotion: gender makes a difference
... For comparative purposes, maximal aerobic capacities for terrestrial exercise can be judged either from absolute rates of aerobic metabolism or from the factorial increase above resting metabolic rate ...
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Avian torpor or alternative thermoregulatory strategies for overwintering?
... basal metabolic rate and evaporative water loss, but their body temperature and thermal conductance were typical of those of other birds and they had a typical endothermic response to low ambient ...
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Thermal physiological traits and plasticity of metabolism are sensitive to biogeographic breaks in a rock pool marine shrimp
... heart rate and plasticity in metabolic rate of the intertidal shrimp Betaeus emarginatus from seven populations along its latitudinal range ( ∼ 3000 ...in metabolic rate was not ...
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