Metabolic rate is negatively linked to adult survival but does not explain latitudinal differences in songbirds.
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DOI: 10.1111/ele.13464
Abstract: Survival rates vary dramatically among species and predictably across latitudes, but causes of this variation are unclear. The rate-of-living hypothesis posits that physiological damage from metabolism causes species with faster metabolic rates to exhibit lower… read more here.
Keywords: latitudinal differences; explain latitudinal; metabolic rate; rate ... See more keywords