Metabolic scaling is the relationship between organismal metabolic rate and body mass.
Understanding the patterns and causes of metabolic scaling provides a powerful foundation …

Metabolic rates vary among individuals according to food availability and phenotype, most
notably body size. Disentangling size from other factors (eg, age, reproductive status) can be …

The reasons why metabolic rate (B) scales allometrically with body mass (M) remain hotly
debated. The field is dominated by correlational analyses of the relationship between B and …

Benthic colonial organisms exhibit a wide variation in size and shape and provide excellent
model systems for testing the predictions of models that describe the scaling of metabolic …

Body size and temperature are fundamental drivers of ecological processes because they
determine metabolic rates at the individual level. Whether these drivers act independently …

Metabolism fuels all of life's activities, from biochemical reactions to ecological interactions.
According to two intensely debated theories, body size affects metabolism via geometrical …

Organismal metabolic rates influence many ecological processes, and the mass-specific
metabolic rate of organisms decreases with increasing body mass according to a power law …

Organisms vary widely in size, from microbes weighing 0.1 pg to trees weighing thousands
of megagrams—a 1021-fold range similar to the difference in mass between an elephant …

Metabolism fuels all biological activities, and thus understanding its variation is
fundamentally important. Much of this variation is related to body size, which is commonly …

Metabolism is the link between ecology and physiology—it dictates the flow of energy
through individuals and across trophic levels. Much of the predictive power of metabolic …