A Note on Metabolic Rate Dependence on B
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ANASTASSIA M. MAKARIEVA; VICTOR G. GORSHKOV; BAI-LIAN LI
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Article
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2003
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The nature of scaling between the organismal basal metabolic rate B and its body mass M, BpM a , is currently an important focus of debates in theoretical biology (Whitfield, 2001). For decades, it has been widely accepted that a ΒΌ 3/4 for virtually all groups of organisms (Hemmingsen, 1960;Kleiber,