Because of its profound effects on the rates of biological processes such as aerobic
metabolism, environmental temperature plays an important role in shaping the distribution …

ABSTRACT A common, long‐held belief is that metabolic rate drives the rates of various
biological, ecological and evolutionary processes. Although this metabolic pacemaker view …

Temperature acclimation may offset the increased energy expenditure (standard metabolic
rate, SMR) and reduced scope for activity (aerobic scope, AS) predicted to occur with local …

Patterns in functional diversity of organisms at large spatial scales can provide insight into
possible responses to future climate change, but it remains a challenge to link large‐scale …

Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of metabolism of a resting, postabsorptive, non-
reproductive, adult bird or mammal, measured during the inactive circadian phase at a …

Life on earth spans a size range of around 21 orders of magnitude across species and can
span a range of more than 6 orders of magnitude within species of animal. The effect of size …

Explaining variation in the fitness of organisms is a fundamental goal in evolutionary
ecology. Maintenance energy metabolism is the minimum energy required to sustain …

Environmental temperature affects physiological functions, representing a barrier for the
range expansions of ectothermic species. To understand the link between thermal …

Macrophysiology is the investigation of variation in physiological traits over large geographic
and temporal scales and the ecological implications of this variation. It has now been …

Metabolic cold adaptation, or Krogh's rule, is the controversial hypothesis that predicts a
monotonically negative relationship between metabolic rate and environmental temperature …