Testing metabolic scaling theory using intraspecific allometries in Antarctic microarthropods

Details Testing metabolic scaling theory using intraspecific allometries in Antarctic microarthropods Testing metabolic scaling theory using intraspecific allometries in Antarctic microarthropods

2008-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/0812.3523v2

Oikos 119, 935-945 (2010)

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

Submitted to Oikos (Nordic Ecological Society and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.)

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17915.x

Quantitative scaling relationships among body mass, temperature and metabolic rate of organisms are still controversial, while resolution may be further complicated through the use of different and possibly inappropriate approaches to statistical analysis. We propose the application of a modelling strategy based on Akaike's information criteria and non-linear model fitting (nlm). Accordingly, we collated and modelled available data at intraspecific level on the individual standard metabolic rate of Antarctic microarthropods as a function of body mass (M), temperature (T), species identity (S) and high rank taxa to which species belong (G) and tested predictions from Metabolic Scaling Theory. We also performed allometric analysis based on logarithmic transformations (lm). Conclusions from lm and nlm approaches were different. Best-supported models from lm incorporated T, M and S. The estimates of the allometric scaling exponent b linking body mass and metabolic rate indicated no interspecific difference and resulted in a value of 0.696 +/- 0.105 (mean +/- 95% CI). In contrast, the four best-supported nlm models suggested that both the scaling exponent and activation energy significantly vary across the high rank taxa to which species belong, with mean values of b ranging from about 0.6 to 0.8. We therefore reached two conclusions: 1) published analyses of arthropod metabolism based on logarithmic data may be biased by data transformation; 2) non-linear models applied to Antarctic microarthropod metabolic rate suggest that intraspecific scaling of standard metabolic rate in Antarctic microarthropods is highly variable and can be characterised by scaling exponents that greatly vary within taxa, which may have biased previous interspecific comparisons that neglected intraspecific variability.

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