Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: predicting responses of mammals to climate change

D Mitchell, EP Snelling, RS Hetem… - Journal of Animal …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
The accuracy of predictive models (also known as mechanistic or causal models) of animal
responses to climate change depends on properly incorporating the principles of heat …

Personality and the emergence of the pace-of-life syndrome concept at the population level

D Réale, D Garant, MM Humphries… - … of the Royal …, 2010‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis specifies that closely related species or
populations experiencing different ecological conditions should differ in a suite of metabolic …

Animal life history is shaped by the pace of life and the distribution of age-specific mortality and reproduction

K Healy, THG Ezard, OR Jones… - Nature ecology & …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Animals exhibit an extraordinary diversity of life history strategies. These realized
combinations of survival, development and reproduction are predicted to be constrained by …

[کتاب][B] Principles of animal nutrition

G Wu - 2017‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Animals are biological transformers of dietary matter and energy to produce high-quality
foods and wools for human consumption and use. Mammals, birds, fish, and shrimp require …

Food insecurity as a driver of obesity in humans: The insurance hypothesis

D Nettle, C Andrews, M Bateson - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017‏ - cambridge.org
Integrative explanations of why obesity is more prevalent in some sectors of the human
population than others are lacking. Here, we outline and evaluate one candidate …

[کتاب][B] Growth: from microorganisms to megacities

V Smil - 2019‏ - books.google.com
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 …

Toward a metabolic theory of ecology

JH Brown, JF Gillooly, AP Allen, VM Savage… - Ecology, 2004‏ - Wiley Online Library
Metabolism provides a basis for using first principles of physics, chemistry, and biology to
link the biology of individual organisms to the ecology of populations, communities, and …

Earthquake fault scaling: Self-consistent relating of rupture length, width, average displacement, and moment release

M Leonard - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of …, 2010‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In this paper, I propose the scaling relation W= C 1 L β (where β≈ 2/3) to describe the
scaling of rupture width with rupture length. I also propose a new displacement relation …

Energy limitation as a selective pressure on the evolution of sensory systems

JE Niven, SB Laughlin - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2008‏ - journals.biologists.com
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 …

Beyond the '3/4-power law': variation in the intra-and interspecific scaling of metabolic rate in animals

DS Glazier - Biological reviews, 2005‏ - cambridge.org
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 …