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| Doubly labeled water method or D218O method |
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| allows one to quantify the metabolic rate of an individual that is entirely free to engage in its normal behaviors in the wild using a water isotope. |
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| Average daily metabolic rate (ADMR) |
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| average metabolic rate of an animal in the wild during the whole 24-hour day (found by doubly labeled water method). |
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| categorize all of an animal’s behavior into a few categories. Use laboratory studies to estimate the animal’s rate of energy expenditure for each category of behavior. |
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| place a radio transmitter on or in an individual and arranging for it to transmit back physiological information. |
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| energy cost per unit of distance at a particular speed |
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| Maximal rate of oxygen consumption (V02 max |
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| - key property for the study of aerobic activity. |
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| states that all organ systems that serve a single function in an animal are interactively adapted to have approximately equal limits because it would make no sense for any one system to have evolved capabilities that could never be used because of more restrictive limits in other systems. |
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| Aerobic scope for activity |
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| at a particular temperature it is defined to be the difference between its V02 max and resting rate of O2 consumption at the same temperature. |
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| ratio of V02 max over its resting rate of O2 consumption |
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| study of the dynamic interplay of energy supplies and needs in ecologically realistic settings. E.g. study of colonies of terns and other seabirds in relation to fish populations upon which they prey |
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