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An explanation of the relationship between mass, metabolic rate and characteristic length for placental mammals
The Mass, Metabolism and Length Explanation (MMLE) was advanced in 1984 to explain the relationship between metabolic rate and body mass for birds and mammals. This paper reports on a modernized version of MMLE. MMLE deterministically computes the absolute value of Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) and bod...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562252/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26355655 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1228 |