The DOI matches its Crossref record; 59 of the 61 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The Relationship between Basal Metabolic Rate and Daily Energy Expenditure in Birds and Mammals
Open accessAbstract
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 were distinguished: a "shared pathways" model in which DEE replaces BMR in the active organism and a "partitioned pathways" model in which DEE includes BMR-that is, BMR is separate from the metabolic pathways that result in activity metabolism (ACT), and DEE = ACT + BMR. The appropriate null hypotheses for the relationship between basal and active metabolism are rDEE· BMR = 0 and rACT· BMR = 0, respectively. Correlations of the residuals (d and b) of the logarithms of DEE and BMR from their allometric regressions with the logarithm of body mass were tested against these null models. Using phylogenetically independent contrasts, we found no significant relationship between DEE and BMR in birds, but a strong relationship (rdb = 0.86) among mammals. Thus, the hypothesis that sustained working capacity is related to basal metabolism is supported for mammals but not for birds. Residuals of metabolic variables from allometric regressions on body mass were greater for mammals than for birds and suggest that mammals are more diversified in their energetic physiology. The idea that sustainable energy expenditure may be pushed to physiological limits in mammals but not in birds is not supported, however, because the ratio of DEE to BMR has a somewhat lower mean and greater variance in mammals compared to birds. The n…
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“In contrast to mammals, BMR and field metabolic rates may not be strongly correlated in birds, especially during breeding (Koteja 1991; Ricklefs et al. 1996).”
From Metabolic costs of brain size evolution (2006) · cites this paper as Ricklefs et al. 1996
Citations
Cites
Phylogenies and the Comparative Method
Felsenstein, J. (1985) · The American Naturalist · doi:10.1086/284325 · Cited by 9,793
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference
Schmid, R., Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M. (1993) · Taxon · doi:10.2307/1223169 · Cited by 5,384
The comparative method in evolutionary biology
Harvey, P., & Pagel, M. (1991) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.29-5104 · Cited by 4,778
The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology
Harvey, P. H., & Pagel, M. D. (1991) · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198546412.001.0001 · Cited by 4,337
Phylogeny and Classification of the Birds
Sibley, C. G., & Ahlquist, J. E. (1991) · Yale University Press eBooks · doi:10.2307/j.ctt1xp3v3r · Cited by 2,312
The Prudent Parent: Energetic Adjustments in Avian Breeding1)
Drent, R. H., & Daan, S. (2002) · Ardea · doi:10.5253/arde.v68.p225 · Cited by 2,187
Self-citationProcedures for the Analysis of Comparative Data Using Phylogenetically Independent Contrasts
Garland, T., Harvey, P. H., & Ives, A. R. (1992) · Systematic Biology · doi:10.1093/sysbio/41.1.18 · Cited by 2,151
Phylogenetic Analysis of Covariance by Computer Simulation
Garland, T., Dickerman, A. W., Janis, C. M., & Jones, J. A. (1993) · Systematic Biology · doi:10.1093/sysbio/42.3.265 · Cited by 1,238
Field Metabolic Rate and Food Requirement Scaling in Mammals and Birds
Nagy, K. A. (1987) · Ecological Monographs · doi:10.2307/1942620 · Cited by 990
Analyzing Body Size as a Factor in Ecology and Evolution
LaBarbera, M. (1989) · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · doi:10.1146/annurev.es.20.110189.000525 · Cited by 859
Flagged first, then by citations
2 of the 61 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Items 301–311 of 311
Will, P., Lawson, E., Cocheran, Z., & Reichert, M. S. (2025) · Journal of Experimental Biology · doi:10.1242/jeb.250570
Cruz, F. B., Bonino, M. F., Azócar, D. L. M., STELLATELLI, O. A., Luna, F., & Antenucci, C. D. (2025) · Sustainable development goals series · doi:10.1007/978-3-032-00074-3_10
Patterson, F. A., Ruperto, E. F., Vicenzi, N., Menéndez, J., & Sassi, P. L. (2026) · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · doi:10.1007/s00265-025-03682-5
“Indeed, several studies report that these variables are positively correlated (Ricklefs et al. 1996; Speakman 1999; White and Seymour 2004; Auer et al. 2017).”
African swine fever spread in wild boars shaped by landscape and population processes
Hwang, H., Rossberg, A. G., Kim, D., Hwang, I., Kim, E. S., Jeon, Y., Kim, J., Park, B. J., Jang, S. Y., & Lee, D. K. (2026) · Ecological Informatics · doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2026.103763
Metabolic responses at sub-thermoneutral temperatures in captive common waxbills (Estrilda astrild)
Pacioni, C., Danneels, H., Dutrieux, L., Sentís, M., Lens, L., & Strubbe, D. (2026) · Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology · doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2026.112047
Corticosterone Concentration Varies With Metabolic Rate in Vertebrates
Wisnionski, A. R., Haase, C. G., Dy, I., Hudson, K., & Gillooly, J. F. (2026) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.74243
“…(Haase et al. 2016; Francis et al. 2018), because these are the only measures of metabolic rate available for such a diverse assortment of species, and because they vary in proportion to active or field metabolic rates across body sizes (Auer et al. 2017; Ricklefs et al. 1996; Savage et al. 2004).”
Parker, N. B., Hermes, J., Irawan, A., Pearce, C. J., Ferschweiler, D., Ateş, S., & Bionaz, M. (2026) · Poultry Science · doi:10.1016/j.psj.2026.107692
“The stronger effect on birds vs. ruminants may be attributed to species differences in mammalian and avian physiology (Ricklefs et al., 1996; Scanes, 2020), in addition to ruminant and monogastric metabolic variations (Apajalahti, 2005).”
Energy-allocation in avian nestlings facing short-term food shortage
Moe, B. (2004) · BIBSYS Brage (BIBSYS (Norway))
Conceptual origins : variability in time and space
Owen‐Smith, N. (2002) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511525605.001
Resource constraints : physiological capacities and costs
Owen‐Smith, N. (2002) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511525605.006
Getz (2001) · doi:10.1644/1545-1542(2001)082
Metadata
- Authors
- Ricklefs, R. E., Konarzewski, M., & Daan, S.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Venue
- The American Naturalist
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1996-06
- Volume
- 147
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1047-1071
- ISSN
- 0003-0147 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5323
- OpenAlex
- W1980038648
- Cited by
- 311
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 16
- FWCI
- 9.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.rug.nl
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- The American Naturalist (publishedVersion)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Uniwersytet Warszawski
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
- Keywords
- basal metabolic rate, daily energy expenditure, birds, mammals, allometry, body mass, phylogenetically independent contrasts, metabolic pathways
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
