How and Why Does Metabolism Scale with Body Mass?

Optimisation and constraint: explaining metabolic patterns in biology

(2023) Craig R. White et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Clade-Specific Allometries in Avian Basal Metabolic Rate Demand a Broader Theory of Allometry

(2023) Samantha M. Giancarli et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Interspecific interactions alter the metabolic costs of climate warming

(2023) Lesley A. Alton et al.   Nature Climate Change

Life history optimisation drives latitudinal gradients and responses to global change in marine fishes

(2023) Mariana Álvarez-Noriega et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

AnimalTraits - a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size

(2022) Marie E. Herberstein et al.   Scientific Data

White Paper: An Integrated Perspective on the Causes of Hypometric Metabolic Scaling in Animals

(2022) Jon F Harrison et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Variable metabolic scaling breaks the law: from ‘Newtonian’ to ‘Darwinian’ approaches

(2022) Douglas S. Glazier   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Metabolic scaling is the product of life-history optimization

(2022) Craig R. White et al.   SCIENCE

The gill-oxygen limitation theory (GOLT) and its critics

(2021) Daniel Pauly   Science Advances

Oxygen stress and reproduction do not impede aerobic performance in adult eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki)

(2021) Thomas J. Callaghan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES

Evolution of metabolic scaling among the tetrapod: effect of phylogeny, the geologic time of class formation, and uniformity of species within a class

(2021) Valery M. GAVRILOV et al.   Integrative Zoology

Environmental and ecological correlates of avian field metabolic rate and water flux

(2020) Soorim Song et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A big-data approach to understanding metabolic rate and response to obesity in laboratory mice

(2020) June K Corrigan et al.   eLife

Coevolution of body size and metabolic rate in vertebrates: a life‐history perspective

(2020) Jan Kozłowski et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Developmental nutrition modulates metabolic responses to projected climate change

(2020) Lesley A. Alton et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

What is the status of metabolic theory one century after P ütter invented the von B ertalanffy growth curve?

(2020) Michael R. Kearney   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Quantifying selection on standard metabolic rate and body mass in Drosophila melanogaster

(2020) Mathieu Videlier et al.   EVOLUTION

Aquatic Life History Trajectories Are Shaped by Selection, Not Oxygen Limitation

(2019) Dustin J. Marshall et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The origin and maintenance of metabolic allometry in animals

(2019) Craig R. White et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

On the Interplay among Ambient Temperature, Basal Metabolic Rate, and Body Mass

(2018) Daniel E. Naya et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Understanding variation in metabolic rate

(2018) Amanda K. Pettersen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Metabolic rate evolves rapidly and in parallel with the pace of life history

(2018) Sonya K. Auer et al.   Nature Communications

Have We Outgrown the Existing Models of Growth?

(2018) Dustin J. Marshall et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Research Weaving: Visualizing the Future of Research Synthesis

(2018) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

In modelling effects of global warming, invalid assumptions lead to unrealistic projections

(2017) Sjannie Lefevre et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Models projecting the fate of fish populations under climate change need to be based on valid physiological mechanisms

(2017) Sjannie Lefevre et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mass scaling of metabolic rates in carabid beetles (Carabidae) – the importance of phylogeny, regression models and gas exchange patterns

(2017) Agnieszka Gudowska et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A broad-scale comparison of aerobic activity levels in vertebrates: endotherms versus ectotherms

(2017) James F. Gillooly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Do Performance–Safety Tradeoffs Cause Hypometric Metabolic Scaling in Animals?

(2017) Jon F. Harrison   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Evolution of basal metabolic rate in bank voles from a multidirectional selection experiment

(2015) E. T. Sadowska et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Does greater thermal plasticity facilitate range expansion of an invasive terrestrial anuran into higher latitudes?

(2015) Hugh S. Winwood-Smith et al.   Conservation Physiology

Physiological plasticity increases resilience of ectothermic animals to climate change

(2014) Frank Seebacher et al.   Nature Climate Change

The relationship between body mass and field metabolic rate among individual birds and mammals

(2013) Lawrence N. Hudson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Testing Metabolic Theories

(2012) Michael R. Kearney et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Scaling of standard metabolic rate in estuarine crocodiles Crocodylus porosus

(2012) Roger S. Seymour et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Determinants of inter-specific variation in basal metabolic rate

(2012) Craig R. White et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Ecological Guild Evolution and the Discovery of the World's Smallest Vertebrate

(2012) Eric N. Rittmeyer et al.   PLoS One

An information-theoretic approach to evaluating the size and temperature dependence of metabolic rate

(2012) C. R. White et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Metabolic rate throughout the annual cycle reveals the demands of an Arctic existence in Great Cormorants

(2011) Craig R. White et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals

(2010) Isabella Capellini et al.   ECOLOGY

Why are metabolic scaling exponents so controversial? Quantifying variance and testing hypotheses

(2010) Nick J. B. Isaac et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The intraspecific scaling of metabolic rate with body mass in fishes depends on lifestyle and temperature

(2010) Shaun S. Killen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Maximal heat dissipation capacity and hyperthermia risk: neglected key factors in the ecology of endotherms

(2010) John R. Speakman et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Curvature in metabolic scaling

(2010) Tom Kolokotrones et al.   NATURE

Shifts in metabolic scaling, production, and efficiency across major evolutionary transitions of life

(2010) J. P. DeLong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mammalian Metabolic Allometry: Do Intraspecific Variation, Phylogeny, and Regression Models Matter?

(2009) Annette E. Sieg et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Abundant Genetic Variation + Strong Selection = Multivariate Genetic Constraints: A Geometric View of Adaptation

(2009) Bruce Walsh et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Scaling in biology

(2009) Andrew J. Spence   CURRENT BIOLOGY

PHYLOGENETICALLY INFORMED ANALYSIS OF THE ALLOMETRY OF MAMMALIAN BASAL METABOLIC RATE SUPPORTS NEITHER GEOMETRIC NOR QUARTER-POWER SCALING

(2009) Craig R. White et al.   EVOLUTION

An ecologist’s guide to the animal model

(2009) Alastair J. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Revisiting a Model of Ontogenetic Growth: Estimating Model Parameters from Theory and Data

(2008) Melanie E. Moses et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Allometric scaling of maximum metabolic rate: the influence of temperature

(2008) C. R. White et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Effects of metabolic level on the body size scaling of metabolic rate in birds and mammals

(2008) D. S Glazier   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Energy Uptake and Allocation During Ontogeny

(2008) C. Hou et al.   SCIENCE

In situ measurement of calling metabolic rate in an Australian mole cricket, Gryllotalpa monanka

(2006) Craig R. White et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY