There is increasing interest in documenting and explaining the existence of marked
intraspecific variation in metabolic rate in animals, with fishes providing some of the best …

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 …

Despite many decades of research, the allometric scaling of metabolic rates (MRs) remains
poorly understood. Here, we argue that scaling exponents of these allometries do not …

Metabolic rates and life history strategies are both thought to set the “pace of life”, but
whether they evolve in tandem is not well understood. Here, using a common garden …

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

Inbreeding may increase the extinction risk of small populations. Yet, studies using modern
genomic tools to investigate inbreeding depression in nature have been limited to single …

Adaptive explanations for both high and low body mass-independent basal metabolic rate
(BMR) in endotherms are pervasive in evolutionary physiology, but arguments implying a …

According to the “pace-of-life syndrome” concept, slow-fast life-history strategies favored
under different ecological conditions should lead to co-adaptations between metabolic rate …

Highlights•We tested the association between animal personality and basal metabolic
rate.•Personality and metabolism were consistent over a substantial part of voles' …

An organism's energy budget is strongly related to resource consumption, performance, and
fitness. Hence, understanding the evolution of key energetic traits, such as basal metabolic …