Isabella Capellini, Chris Venditti, and Robert A. Barton. 2010. Phylogeny and metabolic rates in mammals. Ecology 20:2783–2793.


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Data on basal metabolic rate (BMR) with experimental animal body mass, field metabolic rate (FMR) with wild animal body mass, and sources of the data.
Ecological Archives
E091-198-S1
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Author(s)

Isabella Capellini
Department of Anthropology
Durham University
Dawson Building, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE United Kingdom
E-mail: Isabella.Capellini@dur.ac.uk

Chris Vendetti
School of Biological Sciences
University of Reading
Philip Lyle Building
Reading RG6 6BX United Kingdom
E-mail: c.d.venditti@reading.ac.uk

Robert A. Barton
Department of Anthropology
Durham University
Dawson Building, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE United Kingdom
E-mail: r.a.barton@dur.ac.uk


File list

data.txt

Description

The data.txt file is a tab-separated file. It contains the raw data on metabolic rates, body mass, and citations.

Column definitions

  1. Subclass
  2. Order
  3. Species (with updated to recent common name)
  4. Basal metabolic rate (BMR) in ml O2/hour
  5. Body mass for BMR (gr)
  6. Reference for BMR with body mass data
  7. Field metabolic rate (FMR) in KJ/day
  8. Body mass for FMR (gr)
  9. Reference for FMR with body mass data

Missing values are represented as “-9999”.

Checksum values are:

Column 4 (Basal metabolic rate - BMR): SUM=522759.3362; 43 missing values (rows with data: 580)
Column 5 (Body mass for BMR): SUM=2071364.705; 43 missing values (rows with data: 580)
Column 7 (Field metabolic rate - FMR): SUM=502471.55; 504 missing values (rows with data: 119)
Column 8 (Body mass for FMR): SUM=1243228.74, 504 missing values (rows with data: 119)



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