Evolution of animal morphology, physiology and behaviour is shaped by the selective
pressures to which they are subject. Some selective pressures act to increase the benefits …

Life's size and tempo are intimately linked. The rate of metabolism varies with body mass in
remarkably regular ways that can often be described by a simple power function, where the …

Maximum (aerobic) metabolic rate (MMR) is defined here as the maximum rate of oxygen
consumption (O2max) that a fish can achieve at a given temperature under any ecologically …

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the
trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit …

In this review I show that the '3/4-power scaling law'of metabolic rate is not universal, either
within or among animal species. Significant variation in the scaling of metabolic rate with …

A comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy
in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthesis to our fossil fuelled civilization …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 184–193 Abstract Metabolic energy fuels all biological
processes, and therefore theories that explain the scaling of metabolic rate with body mass …

The scaling of metabolic rate with body mass has long been a controversial topic. Some
workers have claimed that the slope of log‐log metabolic scaling relationships typically …

The relative energetic investment in reproduction between the sexes forms the basis of
sexual selection and life history theories in evolutionary biology. It is often assumed that …

This exceptional book is concerned with the application of fractals and chaos, as well as
other concepts from nonlinear dynamics to biomedical phenomena. Herein we seek to …