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List of works by James F. Gillooly

A broad-scale comparison of aerobic activity levels in vertebrates: endotherms versus ectotherms

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Allometric scaling of maximum population density: a common rule for marine phytoplankton and terrestrial plants

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Assessing latitudinal gradients in speciation rates and biodiversity at the global scale

scientific article published in August 2006

Biological scaling: does the exception prove the rule?

scientific article published in February 2007

Body mass scaling of passive oxygen diffusion in endotherms and ectotherms

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Brain size varies with temperature in vertebrates.

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Changes in body temperature influence the scaling of VO2max and aerobic scope in mammals

scientific article published on February 2007

Characterizing the microbiomes of Antarctic sponges: a functional metagenomic approach

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Common metabolic constraints on dive duration in endothermic and ectothermic vertebrates

scientific article published on 12 October 2016

Dinosaur fossils predict body temperatures

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Ecological food webs: high-quality data facilitate theoretical unification

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Effects of metabolic rate on protein evolution

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2007)

Effects of size and temperature on developmental time

scientific article published in May 2002

Energetic and biomechanical constraints on animal migration distance

scientific article published on 17 November 2011

Energetic basis of colonial living in social insects

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Energetic constraints on an early developmental stage: a comparative view

scientific article published on February 2008

Energetics of stress: linking plasma cortisol levels to metabolic rate in mammals

scientific article published on January 2016

Eusocial insects as superorganisms: Insights from metabolic theory

scientific article published on July 2010

Evaluating the influences of temperature, primary production, and evolutionary history on bivalve growth rates

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Evaluating the tradeoff between offspring number and survivorship across fishes, amphibians, reptiles and mammals

scientific article published on 01 April 2021

Explaining differences in the lifespan and replicative capacity of cells: a general model and comparative analysis of vertebrates

scientific article published on 18 July 2012

Global biodiversity, biochemical kinetics, and the energetic-equivalence rule

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How reliable is the biological time clock?

scientific article published in Nature

Idiographic and nomothetic approaches to heterogeneity are complementary: Response to comments on “Evaluating the influences of temperature, primary production, and evolutionary history on bivalve growth rates”

scientific article published in May 2020

Kinetic effects of temperature on rates of genetic divergence and speciation

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Linking global patterns in biodiversity to evolutionary dynamics using metabolic theory

scientific article published on August 2007

Nuclear DNA Content Varies with Cell Size across Human Cell Types

scientific article published on July 2015

On Theory in Ecology

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On the Importance of First Principles in Ecological Theory Development

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Physiology: Why does metabolic rate scale with body size?

scientific article published in February 2003

Predators, prey, and transient states in the assembly of spatially structured communities

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Predicting egg size across temperatures in marine teleost fishes

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Predicting natural mortality rates of plants and animals.

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RESPONSE TO FORUM COMMENTARY ON “TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY”

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Response to Comment on "Global Biodiversity, Biochemical Kinetics, and the Energetic-Equivalence Rule"

scientific article published in 2003

Scaling metabolism from organisms to ecosystems

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Scaling of number, size, and metabolic rate of cells with body size in mammals

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Size and Temperature in the Evolution of Fish Life Histories

scientific article published on December 1, 2004

Temperature effects on virion volume and genome length in dsDNA viruses.

scientific article published on March 2016

Temperature-dependence of biomass accumulation rates during secondary succession

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The Cost of Sex: Quantifying Energetic Investment in Gamete Production by Males and Females

scientific article published on January 24, 2011

The energetic basis of acoustic communication

scientific article published on 6 January 2010

The mechanistic basis of the metabolic theory of ecology

scientific article published in 2007

The metabolic basis of whole-organism RNA and phosphorus content

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The random nature of genome architecture: predicting open reading frame distributions

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The rate of DNA evolution: effects of body size and temperature on the molecular clock

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Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use

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Toward a metabolic theory of ecology

scientific article published in 2004

Towards a general life-history model of the superorganism: predicting the survival, growth and reproduction of ant societies.

scientific article published on 15 August 2012

Towards an integration of ecological stoichiometry and the metabolic theory of ecology to better understand nutrient cycling

scientific article published in May 2009

Vertebrate blood cell volume increases with temperature: implications for aerobic activity

scientific article published on 10 April 2014