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resting metabolic rate — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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resting metabolic rate

Scope: methodological

Papers: 10 | Mentions: 11

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 72 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on resting metabolic rate with 72 nodes and 142 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Marmota, Marmota flaviventris, Crested Butte.

Definition

The rate of energy expenditure for basic physiological maintenance processes, measured as CO₂ emission rate.

Related Terms (4)

RMRoxygen consumptionflow-through respirometryBMR

Publications (10)

DynaMETE: a hybrid MaxEnt-plus-mechanism theory of dynamic macroecology

2021Ecology Letters

Direct Observation of the Depth of Active Groundwater Circulation in an Alpine Watershed

2021Water Resources Research

Dispersal, Wing Morphology and Physiology relationships in <i> Euphydryas Gillettii </I> and implications for conservation

Disintegration of the leaf economic spectrum within and across Quaking aspen (<i>Populus tremuloides</i>) genotypes

Effects of increased flight on the energetics and life history of the butterfly <i>Speyeria mormonia</i>

On theory in ecology

The effect of wing wear on the flight metabolic rate of the mormon fritillary butterfly (<i>Speyeria mormonia</i>)

Phylogeny and patterns of energy conservation in marmots

2008Molecules to Migration: The Pressures of Life

Related Concepts (10)

Temperature

measurement3 shared papers

flight metabolic rate

measurement3 shared papers

Maximum Information Entropy theory

theory2 shared papers

stream conductivity

measurement2 shared papers

Reproductive success

measurement2 shared papers

natural selection

process2 shared papers

Source of Water

measurement2 shared papers

Genetic diversity

measurement2 shared papers

Ecosystem diversity

phenomenon2 shared papers

species diversity index

measurement2 shared papers

Frequently Associated Species

Lepidoptera

Speyeria mormonia

Nymphalidae3 papers

Marmota flaviventris

Sciuridae3 papers

Marmota

Sciuridae3 papers

Marmota marmota

Sciuridae3 papers

Speyeria

Nymphalidae3 papers

Callospermophilus lateralis

Sciuridae3 papers

Urocitellus richardsonii

Sciuridae2 papers

Picea engelmannii

Pinaceae2 papers

Populus tremuloides

Salicaceae2 papers

Holarctic marmots as a factor of biodiversity

2002

Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity