TY - JOUR
T1 - A manipulative test of competing theories for metabolic scaling in animals.
AU - White, C.R.
AU - Kearney, M.R.
AU - Matthews, P.G.D.
AU - Kooijman, S.A.L.M.
AU - Marshall, D.J.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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
AB - 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
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U2 - 10.1086/662666
DO - 10.1086/662666
M3 - Article
SN - 0003-0147
VL - 178
SP - 746
EP - 754
JO - The American Naturalist
JF - The American Naturalist
ER -
