Heat dissipation drives the hump-shaped scaling of animal dispersal speed with body mass
A. Dyer, U. Brose, E. Berti, B. Rosenbaum, M. Hirt
The paper develops a model showing that heat dissipation limits dispersal speed in animals, leading to a hump-shaped relationship with body mass, supported by empirical data across 531 species.
bioRxiv · Sep 8, 2022 · PreprintEcology