Accounting for body mass effects in the estimation of field metabolic rates from body acceleration
E. Byrnes, K. O. Lear, L. R. Brewster, N. M. Whitney, M. J. Smukall, N. J. Armstrong, A. C. Gleiss
The paper develops a covariate-corrected model to estimate metabolic rates from dynamic body acceleration, showing allometric scaling improves accuracy over mass-specific methods.
bioRxiv · Jul 24, 2020Physiology