ArticleEcology and evolution2016
Phylogenetic comparisons of pedestrian locomotion costs: confirmations and new insights.
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- Meta-analysis reveals that resting metabolic rate is not consistently related to fitness and performance in animals.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2021Pooled it
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- Evolutionary diversity of muscle OXPHOS efficiencyProceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Long walk home: Magellanic penguins have strategies that lead them to areas where they can navigate most efficiently.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Embryo movement is more frequent in avian brood parasites than birds with parental reproductive strategies.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Terrestrial locomotion energy costs vary considerably between species: no evidence that this is explained by rate of leg force production or ecology.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
The energetic costs for animals to locomote on land influence many aspects of their ecology. Size accounts for much of the among-species variation in terrestrial transport costs, but species of similar body size can still exhibit severalfold differences in energy expenditure. We compiled measurements of the (mass-specific) minimum cost of pedestrian transport (COT
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