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Basal Metabolic Rate, Body Weight and Diet in Primates: An Evaluation of the Evidence

 

作者: Caroline Ross,  

 

期刊: Folia Primatologica  (Karger Available online 1992)
卷期: Volume 58, issue 1  

页码: 7-23

 

ISSN:0015-5713

 

年代: 1992

 

DOI:10.1159/000156602

 

出版商: S. Karger AG

 

关键词: Basal metabolic rate;Diet;Dietary quality;Jarman-Bell principle;Allometric scaling;Phylogenetic effects;Thermoregulation

 

数据来源: Karger

 

摘要:

The relationship between basal metabolic rate (BMR), body weight and diet is examined for primates. Contrary to the results reported in several recent works, there is no strong evidence that diet is directly linked to BMR, although a low BMR, relative to body weight, may be found in species with folivorous diets. There is some evidence that nocturnal haplorhine species have a relatively low BMR, but strepsirhines appear to have a uniformly low relative BMR regardless of their primary activity period. The evolution of BMR in primates is discussed in the light of these findings. Some predictions are made about the relative BMRs that should be found for other species whose BMR is, as yet, unknown.

 

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