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 …

The study of phenotypic evolution should be an integrative endeavor that combines different
approaches and crosses disciplinary and phylogenetic boundaries to consider complex …

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 affects everything. It influences all aspects of the physical environment and
governs any process that involves a flow of energy, setting boundaries on what an organism …

Rates of aerobic metabolism vary considerably across evolutionary lineages, but little is
known about the proximate and ultimate factors that generate and maintain this variability …

In this paper we show how animal personality could explain some of the large inter‐
individual variation in resting metabolic rate (MR) and explore methodological and …

Longevity is a major characteristic of animals that has long fascinated scientists. In this work,
we present a comprehensive database of animal longevity records and related life‐history …

To explain variation in relative brain size among homoiothermic vertebrates, we propose the
Expensive Brain hypothesis as a unifying explanatory framework. It claims that the costs of a …

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 …

Abstract Machine learning has become popular in ecology but its use has remained
restricted to predicting, rather than understanding, the natural world. Many researchers …