Testing Metabolic Theories in Ecology

On the replicability of physiological responses

LA Alton, CL Bywater, E Pirtle, MR Kearney, CR White

2026-03-01

Science is often claimed to be amid a reproducibility crisis, as evidenced by low replicability of many classic findings across mu..

The origin and maintenance of metabolic allometry in animals

CR White, DJ Marshall, LA Alton, PA Arnold, JE Beaman, CL Bywater, C Condon, TS Crispin, A Janetzki, E Pirtle, HS Winwood-Smith, MJ Angilletta, SF Chenoweth, CE Franklin, LG Halsey, MR Kearney, SJ Portugal, D Ortiz-Barrientos

2019-04-01

Organisms vary widely in size, from microbes weighing 0.1 pg to trees weighing thousands of megagrams — a 10 ²¹ -fold r..

Ontogenetic and interspecific scaling of consumption in insects

JL Maino, MR Kearney

2015-12-01

The uptake of resources from the environment is a basic feature of all life. Consumption rate has been found to scale with body si..

Testing mechanistic models of growth in insects

JL Maino, MR Kearney

2015-11-25

Insects are typified by their small size, large numbers, impressive reproductive output and rapid growth. However, insect growth i..

Morphology and burrowing energetics of semi-fossorial skinks (Liopholis spp.)

NC Wu, LA Alton, CJ Clemente, MR Kearney, CR White

2015-08-01

Burrowing is an important form of locomotion in reptiles, but no study has examined the energetic cost of burrowing for reptiles. ..

Ontogenetic and interspecific metabolic scaling in insects

JL Maino, MR Kearney

2014-01-01

Design constraints imposed by increasing size cause metabolic rate in animals to increase more slowly than mass. This ubiquitous b..

Reconciling theories for metabolic scaling

JL Maino, MR Kearney, RM Nisbet, SALM Kooijman

2014-01-01

Metabolic theory specifies constraints on the metabolic organisation of individual organisms. These constraints have important imp..

Determinants of inter-specific variation in basal metabolic rate

CR White, MR Kearney

2013-01-01

Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of metabolism of a resting, postabsorptive, non-reproductive, adult bird or mammal, measure..

Testing metabolic theories

MR Kearney, CR White

2012-11-01

Metabolism is the process by which individual organisms acquire energy and materials from their environment and use them for maint..

Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: Roles of behaviour, physiology and adaptation

RB Huey, MR Kearney, A Krockenberger, JAM Holtum, M Jess, SE Williams

2012-01-01

A recently developed integrative framework proposes that the vulnerability of a species to environmental change depends on the spe..