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PrimateMetabolism

Primate Metabolic Rates

Description

Body mass (g) and metabolic rate (watts) for 17 species of primates.

Format

A data frame with 17 observations on the following 2 variables.

mass

mass (g)

bmr

metabolic rate (watts)

Source

Heusner, A.A. 1991. Size and power in mammals. Journal of Experimental Biology 160: 25-54.

References

Examples

str(PrimateMetabolism)
xyplot(bmr ~ mass, PrimateMetabolism)
xyplot(bmr ~ mass, PrimateMetabolism, scales=list(log=TRUE))
abd

The Analysis of Biological Data

v0.2-8
GPL-2
Authors
Kevin M. Middleton <middletonk@missouri.edu>, Randall Pruim <rpruim@calvin.edu>
Initial release
2015-07-02

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