Beyond the ‘3/4‐power law’: variation in the intra‐and interspecific scaling of metabolic rate in animals

By Douglas S. Glazier. Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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• Moving on from Metabolic Scaling Theory: hierarchical models of tree growth and asymmetric competition for light (2011, background): “For example, exponent estimates for scaling relationships between metabolic rates and body mass of animals (taken from Glazier 2005) are funnel shaped with respect to sample size, and the 95% confidence intervals get narrower as sample size increases (Fig.”
• Body size in freshwater planktonic crustaceans: an overview of extrinsic determinants and modifying influences of biotic interactions (2011, background): “First, weight-specific metabolic costs are widely perceived to be lower, although this notion is recently contested by Glazier (2005, 2006)—see ‘Respiration’ section.”
• Intraspecific temperature dependence of the scaling of metabolic rate with body mass in fishes and its ecological implications (2012, background): “Glazier (2005) showed that ectothermic vertebrates generally exhibit higher interspecific scaling exponents than endothermic vertebrates and that the effect of temperature on the metabolic scaling may vary among species.”
• Reconsidering the mechanistic basis of the metabolic theory of ecology (2007, neutral): “Glazier (2005), however, documents a variety of intraspecific metabolic allometries: 1) many with allometric exponents differing substantially from 0.75, and 2) many that are poorly described by linear relationships between the logarithms of mass and metabolism.”
• Larval instar as a key element of insect growth schedules (2006, background): “…is a large body of empirical evidence however, which indicate that values of the allometric exponent, relating metabolic activity (and, often also the growth rate) to body mass, are below 1 in most cases and are typically close to 2/3 or 3/4 (West et al. 2001, 2004, Ricklefs 2003, Glazier 2005).”
• Temperature and the metabolic theory of ecology (2006, background): “2006), a comprehensive analysis by Glazier (2005) has revealed considerable heterogeneity in the value of b across a wide range of animal groups, and Makarieva, Gorshkov & Li (2003, 2005) have examined the scaling of metabolic rate from the perspective of a minimum cost for maintaining living tissue”
• Depth‐related trends in metabolism of benthic and benthopelagic deep‐sea fishes (2007, background): “…can be predicted based solely on size and temperature (Gillooly et al. 2001; Brown et al. 2004), more recent analyses demonstrate a wide variation in both the slopes and elevations of the scaling relationships after temperature adjustment (Glazier 2005; Seibel 2007; Seibel and Drazen in press).”
• Bridging the gap between marine biogeochemical and fisheries sciences; configuring the zooplankton link (2014, background): “Furthermore, recent studies suggest that the intraspecific metabolic-scaling exponent may be related to various ecological factors, including zooplankton activity, habitat, and temperature (Glazier, 2005, 2006, 2010).”
• Application of macroecological theory to predict effects of climate change on global fisheries potential (2008, neutral): “Alternative values of the scaling exponent may exist in some taxa (e.g. Clark & Johnston 1999, Glazier 2005, van der Meer 2006, White et al. 2007) or life stages (Pauly 1981).”
• Representing the acquisition and use of energy by individuals in agent‐based models of animal populations (2013, background): “Intraspecific scaling relationships of 218 species are tabulated in the study by Glazier (2005).”