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Abstract
Why are sustained energy budgets of humans and other vertebrates limited to not more than about seven times resting metabolic rate? The answer to this question has potential applications to growth rates, foraging ecology, biogeography, plant metabolism, burn patients and sports medicine.Entities:
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Year: 1997 PMID: 9087402 DOI: 10.1038/386457a0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nature ISSN: 0028-0836 Impact factor: 49.962