A manipulative test of competing theories for metabolic scaling in animals.

C.R. White; M.R. Kearney; P.G.D. Matthews; S.A.L.M. Kooijman; D.J. Marshall

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A manipulative test of competing theories for metabolic scaling in animals.

C.R. White, M.R. Kearney, P.G.D. Matthews, S.A.L.M. Kooijman, D.J. Marshall

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The reasons why metabolic rate (B) scales allometrically with body mass (M) remain hotly debated. The field is dominated by correlational analyses of the relationship between B and M; these struggle to disentangle competing explanations because both B and M are confounded with ontogeny, life history, and ecology. Here, we overcome these problems by using an experimental approach to test among competing metabolic theories. We examined the scaling of B in size-manipulated and intact colonies of a bryozoan and show that B scales with M

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	746-754
Journal	The American Naturalist
Volume	178
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/662666
Publication status	Published - 2011

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