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| Maximal sustained energy budgets in humans and animals |
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| Author(s): Hammond KA, Diamond J |
| Source: NATURE Volume: 386 Issue: 6624 Pages: 457-462 Published: APR 3 1997 |
| Times Cited: 209 References: 44 |
| 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, blogeography, plant metabolism, burn patients and sports medicine. |
| Document Type: Review |
| Language: English |
| Reprint Address: Hammond, KA (reprint author), UNIV CALIF RIVERSIDE, DEPT BIOL, RIVERSIDE, CA 92521 USA |
Addresses:
1. UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES, SCH MED, DEPT PHYSIOL, LOS ANGELES, CA 90095 USA |
| Publisher: MACMILLAN MAGAZINES LTD, PORTERS SOUTH, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON, ENGLAND N1 9XW |
| Subject Category: Multidisciplinary Sciences |
| IDS Number: WR256 |
| ISSN: 0028-0836 |
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