Physiological constraints on marine mammal body size

A Dynamic State Model of Migratory Behavior and Physiology to Assess the Consequences of Environmental Variation and Anthropogenic Disturbance on Marine Vertebrates

(2018) Enrico Pirotta et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Energetic tradeoffs control the size distribution of aquatic mammals

(2018) William Gearty et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics

(2017) Graham J. Slater et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The rise of ocean giants: maximum body size in Cenozoic marine mammals as an indicator for productivity in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

(2016) Nicholas D. Pyenson et al.   Biology Letters

Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) optimize foraging efficiency by balancing oxygen use and energy gain as a function of prey density

(2015) E. L. Hazen et al.   Science Advances

Feeding rates and under-ice foraging strategies of the smallest lunge filter feeder, the Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)

(2014) A. S. Friedlaender et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Free-swimming northern elephant seals have low field metabolic rates that are sensitive to an increased cost of transport

(2014) J. L. Maresh et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally

(2014) K. S. Ramirez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How Large Should Whales Be?

(2013) Aaron Clauset   PLoS One

Dimensionality of consumer search space drives trophic interaction strengths

(2012) Samraat Pawar et al.   NATURE

Metabolic Expenditures of Lunge Feeding Rorquals Across Scale: Implications for the Evolution of Filter Feeding and the Limits to Maximum Body Size

(2012) Jean Potvin et al.   PLoS One

Scaling of lunge-feeding performance in rorqual whales: mass-specific energy expenditure increases with body size and progressively limits diving capacity

(2011) Jeremy A. Goldbogen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

Skull and buccal cavity allometry increase mass-specific engulfment capacity in fin whales

(2009) J. A. Goldbogen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Evolution and Distribution of Species Body Size

(2008) A. Clauset et al.   SCIENCE