ArticleEcology and evolution2016
Fluctuating selection on basal metabolic rate.
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- Skeletal muscle and metabolic flexibility in response to changing energy demands in wild birds.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
- Metabolic rate, context-dependent selection, and the competition-colonization trade-off.Evolution letters · 2020Article
- The metabolic performance predicts home range size of bank voles: a support for the behavioral-bioenergetics theory.Oecologia · 2020Article
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- How low can you go? An adaptive energetic framework for interpreting basal metabolic rate variation in endotherms.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2017Review
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Abstract
BMR (Basal metabolic rate) is an important trait in animal life history as it represents a significant part of animal energy budgets. BMR has also been shown to be positively related to sustainable work rate and maximal thermoregulatory capacity. To this date, most of the studies have focused on the causes of interspecific and intraspecific variation in BMR, and fairly little is known about the fitness consequences of different metabolic strategies. In this study, we show that winter BMR affects local survival in a population of wild blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus), but that the selection direction differs between years. We argue that this fluctuating selection is probably a consequence of varying winter climate with a positive relation between survival and BMR during cold and harsh conditions, but a negative relation during mild winters. This fluctuating selection can not only explain the pronounced variation in BMR in wild populations, but will also give us new insights into how energy turnover rates can shape the life-history strategies of animals. Furthermore, the study shows that the process of global warming may cause directional selection for a general reduction in BMR, affecting the general life-history strategy on the population level.
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