Quantifying the energetic cost of food quality constraints on resting metabolism to integrate nutritional and metabolic ecology.
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DOI: 10.1111/ele.13855
Abstract: Consumer metabolism controls the energy uptake from the environment and its allocation to biomass production. In natural ecosystems, available energy in food often fails to predict biomass production which is also (co)limited by the relative… read more here.
Keywords: quality; metabolism; quantifying energetic; energetic cost ... See more keywords