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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Isabella Capellini
Department of Anthropology
Durham University
Dawson Building, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE United Kingdom
E-mail: Isabella.Capellini@dur.ac.ukChris Vendetti
School of Biological Sciences
University of Reading
Philip Lyle Building
Reading RG6 6BX United Kingdom
E-mail: c.d.venditti@reading.ac.ukRobert A. Barton
Department of Anthropology
Durham University
Dawson Building, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE United Kingdom
E-mail: r.a.barton@dur.ac.uk
The data.txt file is a tab-separated file. It contains the raw data on metabolic rates, body mass, and citations.
Column definitions
- Subclass
- Order
- Species (with updated to recent common name)
- Basal metabolic rate (BMR) in ml O2/hour
- Body mass for BMR (gr)
- Reference for BMR with body mass data
- Field metabolic rate (FMR) in KJ/day
- Body mass for FMR (gr)
- 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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