Body size is a key feature of organisms and varies continuously because of the effects of
natural selection on the size‐dependency of resource acquisition and mortality rates. This …

Life's size and tempo are intimately linked. The rate of metabolism varies with body mass in
remarkably regular ways that can often be described by a simple power function, where the …

Knowledge of feeding rates is the basis to understand interaction strength and subsequently
the stability of ecosystems and biodiversity. Feeding rates, as all biological rates, depend on …

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 …

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 …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 184–193 Abstract Metabolic energy fuels all biological
processes, and therefore theories that explain the scaling of metabolic rate with body mass …

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 …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the modern ecological and evolutionary contexts
of the evolutionary physiology in insects and provides a survey of sources of environmental …

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 …

The development of a more synthetic approach to understanding spatial patterns in
biogeography, particularly of the way in which these patterns interact, constitutes a major …