Measuring Metabolic Rates

The Fire of Life

1962 • 1,829 citations

New Equations for Computing Vapor Pressure and Enhancement Factor

1981 • 1,424 citations

Continuous Recording of Blood Oxygen Tensions by Polarography

1953 • 841 citations

Use of the Pauling Oxygen Analyzer for Measurement of Oxygen Consumption of Animals in Open-Circuit Systems and in a Short-Lag, Closed-Circuit Apparatus

1957 • 567 citations

The hot-blooded insects: strategies and mechanisms of thermoregulation

1993 • 442 citations

Measurement of Total Carbon Dioxide Production by Means of D₂O¹⁸

1955 • 421 citations

One-step N2-dilution technique for calibrating open-circuit VO2 measuring systems

1981 • 341 citations

Discontinuous Gas Exchange in Insects

1996 • 293 citations

The history and theory of the doubly labeled water technique

1998 • 279 citations

Evolution of water conservation mechanisms inDrosophila

2003 • 244 citations

Design, calibration and calculation for flow-through respirometry systems

2001 • 225 citations

CLIMATIC ADAPTATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF BASAL AND MAXIMUM RATES OF METABOLISM IN RODENTS

2004 • 207 citations

Energetics of Locomotion and Load Carriage and a Model of the Energy Cost of Foraging in the Leaf-Cutting Ant Atta colombica Guer

1987 • 178 citations

Measurement of O2 consumption, CO2 production, and water vapor production in a closed system

1987 • 169 citations

A New Look at Insect Respiration

1988 • 161 citations

Fuel selection in rufous hummingbirds: ecological implications of metabolic biochemistry.

1990 • 151 citations

Thermolimit respirometry: an objective assessment of critical thermal maxima in two sympatric desert harvester ants,Pogonomyrmex rugosusandP. californicus

2004 • 145 citations

Low Metabolic Rate in Scorpions: Implications for Population Biomass and Cannibalism

2001 • 134 citations

Sampling Bias in Respirometry

1992 • 114 citations

Energetics of locomotion and patterns of respiration in tenebrionid beetles from the Namib Desert

1985 • 109 citations

Direct calorimetry reveals large errors in respirometric estimates of energy expenditure

2005 • 108 citations

Oxygen Consumption During Hover-Feeding in Free-Ranging Anna Hummingbirds

1986 • 107 citations

Doubly-Labeled Water Studies of Vertebrate Physiological Ecology

1989 • 81 citations

Metabolic syndrome and obesity in an insect

2006 • 75 citations

A method of estimating the oxygen and carbonic acid in small quantities of blood

1902 • 75 citations

The energetics of the trot–gallop transition

2003 • 72 citations

Coulometric Measurement Of Oxygen Consumption During Development Of Marine Invertebrate Embryos And Larvae

1995 • 69 citations

Oxygen Reperfusion Damage in an Insect

2007 • 67 citations

Functional Dependence of the Power for Hovering on Wing Disc Loading in Hummingbirds

1980 • 61 citations

Understanding respirometry chambers: What goes in must come out

1989 • 58 citations

PHYLOGENY AFFECTS ESTIMATION OF METABOLIC SCALING IN MAMMALS

2002 • 52 citations

Oxidation rate and turnover of ingested sugar in hovering Anna's(Calypte anna) and rufous (Selasphorus rufus)hummingbirds

2007 • 47 citations

Measurement of evaporative water loss in small animals by dew-point hygrometry

1977 • 46 citations

Hot hypoxic flies: Whole-organism interactions between hypoxic and thermal stressors in Drosophila melanogaster

2007 • 43 citations

Diversity in gas exchange and muscular activity patterns in insects studied by a respirometer‐actograph

1999 • 33 citations

Measurement of CO2 production by the doubly labeled water technique

1986 • 33 citations

Standard and exercise metabolism and the dynamics of gas exchange in the giant red velvet mite, Dinothrombium magnificum

1995 • 31 citations

ENERGY COST OF LOCOMOTION: VALIDATION OF LABORATORY DATA BY IN SITU RESPIROMETRY

2002 • 28 citations

Validation of the doubly labeled water method in rats during isolation and simulated weightlessness

2000 • 20 citations

Highly accurate measurement of oxygen using a paramagnetic gas sensor

2006 • 19 citations

A continuously recording respirometer, used to measure oxygen consumption and estimate locomotor activity in tsetse flies, Glossina morsitans

1977 • 18 citations

Reliability in Estimates of Body Composition of Birds: Oxygen‐18 versus Deuterium Dilution

2006 • 16 citations

Results of treatments with natural insecticidal substances on the development and physiological state of insects

2006 • 13 citations

AN APPARATUS FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF THE METABOLIC RATE OF SMALL ANIMALS

1937 • 11 citations

Shaken, not stirred: a serendipitous study of ants and earthquakes

2005 • 9 citations

A Simple, Sensitive and Versatile Solid-State Pressure Transducer

1988 • 9 citations

Some new forms of apparatus for the analysis of the gases of the blood by the chemical method

1910 • 8 citations

Calibration method for small animal indirect calorimeters

1991 • 7 citations

Detecting Micron-Size Movements

1996 • 3 citations

Oxygen consumption measured with microcomputer-assisted Warburg manometry

1982 • 3 citations

A manometer for comparative study of physiological processes

1936 • 2 citations

Preparation of perlite-based magnesium perchlorate desiccant with colour indicator

1994 • 2 citations