Energy balance is not a simple algebraic sum of energy expenditure and energy intake as
often depicted in communications. Energy balance is a dynamic process and there exist …

Why are sustained energy budgets of humans and other vertebrates limited to not more than
about seven times resting metabolic rate? The answer to this question has potential …

Organ structures and correlated metabolic features (eg metabolic rate) have often taken as
fixed attributes of fully grown individual vertebrates. When measurements of these attributes …

Publisher Summary The chapter begins with an overview of cost of living based on field
metabolic rates of small mammals. The chapter then goes on to discuss the importance of …

Animal species of similar body mass vary widely in basal metabolic rate (BMR). A central
problem of evolutionary physiology concerns the anatomical/physiological origin and …

The recent surge in knowledge of cellular and molecular mechanisms of intestinal sugar
transport has fueled an enormous interest in adaptive mechanisms regulating sugar …

We examined the relationship between daily energy expenditure (DEE) and basal metabolic
rate (BMR) in birds and mammals. Two models of the relationship between DEE and BMR …

The study of individual variation offers an underexploited wealth of opportunities for
mammalogists. This paper addresses recent developments in the study of both intra-and …

Adaptive explanations that rely on physiological arguments are common, but tests of
hypotheses about the significance of whole‐animal physiological performance (eg, aerobic …

Do animal species that normally consume large meals at long intervals evolve to down-
regulate their metabolic physiology while fasting and to up-regulate it steeply on feeding? To …