... (see Glossary) as a framework for comparing gait across species, and then examine the existing literature data on striding gaits of birds, providing our own meta-analysis of the scaling trends. Finally, we discuss possible functional interpretations of the observed scaling trends with respect...

... temperature and the metabolic cost of transport, variables that are independent of the physical environment. Physiological vagility is the speed at which an animal can move sustainably based on these parameters. This meta-analysis tests whether this definition of physiological vagility correlates...

... et al., 2013 ). Surprisingly, no clear consensus over how to estimate oxygen tolerance exists, and for the most part, modern statistical approaches have not been brought to bear on this problem. metabolism oxygen consumption statistics meta-analysis oxygen availability © 2013...

..., it is essential that the devices themselves do not affect the data of interest. A recent meta-analysis reported an overall negative effect of these devices on the birds that bear them, i.e. on nesting productivity, clutch size, nest initiation date, offspring quality, body condition, flying ability, foraging...

...; and most important, (3) whether metabolic rate is significantly repeatable. We performed a meta-analysis to address these questions, as well as to explore the historical trend in repeatability studies. Our results show that metabolic rate is significantly repeatable and its effect size is not statistically...