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Size and Power in Mammals
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The relationship between basal metabolism P and body mass M of 391 mammalian species has been analysed by least-squares regression, robust regression and covariance analyses. This relationship is a power function: where the mass exponent b is 0.678±0.007 (mean±S.D.) and the mass coefficient a takes different values. Theory of measurement revealed that the 2/3 mass exponent is due to an underlying dimensional relationship between the primary quantity of mass and the secondary quantity of power. This paper shows that the 2/3 mass exponent is not the physiological problem of interest. It is not the slope of the metabolic regression line, but its location in the mass/power plane, that must be explained. This location is given by the value of the mass coefficient, the explanation of which is, and remains, the central question in comparative physiology.
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- Authors
- Heusner, A. A.
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Biology
- Publisher
- The Company of Biologists
- Published
- 1991-10-01
- Volume
- 160
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 25-54
- ISSN
- 0022-0949 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-9145
- OpenAlex
- W2099171717
- Cited by
- 172
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 5.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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