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Review
Nature 386, 457-462 (3 April 1997) | doi:10.1038/386457a0
Maximal sustained energy budgets in humans and animals
Kimberly A. Hammond & Jared Diamond
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Abstract
Why are sustained energy budgets of humans and other vertebrates limited to not more than about seven times resting metabolic rate? The answer to this question has potential applications to growth rates, foraging ecology, biogeography, plant metabolism, burn patients and sports medicine.
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