Title: Responses of
intraspecific metabolic scaling to temperature and activity differ
between water- and air-breathing ectothermic vertebrates
Authors: Guillermo
García-Gómez1, Andrew G. Hirst1,2,
Matthew Spencer1, and David
Atkinson3
Affiliation: 1 School of Environmental
Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK
2 School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences,
Nottingham Trent University, UK
3 Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour,
University of Liverpool, UK
Running title: Metabolic scaling in ectothermic vertebrates
Keywords (8): Ecophysiology; oxygen limitation; animal
locomotion; bioenergetics; body mass; metabolic theory; Metabolic-Level
Boundaries Hypothesis; allometry
Type of article: Letter
Number of words in abstract: 146
Number of words in main text: 4725
Number of references: 86
Number of figures: 4
Number of tables: 1
Corresponding author: Guillermo García-Gómez /
guillegar.gz@gmail.com
/ +34619245191