Evidence for a maintenance cost for birds maintaining highly flexible basal, but not summit, metabolic rates

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2023-06-02

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Swanson, David L.
Stager, Maria
Vezina, Francois
Liu, Jin‑Song
McKechnie, Andrew E.
Amirkhiz, Reza Goljani

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Nature Research

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DATA AVAILABILITY : Data are available upon request from the corresponding author, David L. Swanson, and are also publicly available in Dryad (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.hqbzkh1n2).

Keywords

Phenotypic flexibility, Basal metabolic rate (BMR), Maintenance cost, Birds, Metabolic flexibility

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Swanson, D.L., Stager, M., Vezina, F. et al. 2023, 'Evidence for a maintenance cost for birds maintaining highly flexible basal, but not summit, metabolic rates', Scientific Reports, 13, no. 8968, pp. 1-9. https://DOI.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36218-w

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