Scaling in biology: The consequences of size

The Fire of Life: An Introduction to Animal Energetics

1975 • 2,578 citations

Body size and metabolism

1932 • 2,118 citations

Mechanical Design in Organisms

2020 • 1,292 citations

Vertebrate Paleontology

1967 • 1,207 citations

Size and Shape in Biology

1973 • 1,165 citations

Mechanical Design in Organisms

1976 • 894 citations

Locomotion: Energy Cost of Swimming, Flying, and Running

1972 • 873 citations

Energy metabolism as related to body size and respiratory surfaces, and its evolution

1960 • 850 citations

Scaling of respiratory variables in mammals

1967 • 840 citations

A Re-Examination of the Relation between Standard Metabolic Rate and Body Weight in Birds

1967 • 812 citations

On body size and tissue respiration

1961 • 763 citations

The Speed of Swimming of Fish as Related to Size and to the Frequency and Amplitude of the Tail Beat

1958 • 728 citations

Scaling of energetic cost of running to body size in mammals

1970 • 570 citations

Oxygen Uptake as Related to Body Size in Organisms

1953 • 544 citations

Bioenergetics and Growth, with Special Reference to the Efficiency Complex in Domestic Animals.

1947 • 444 citations

Energetic Cost of Locomotion in Kangaroos

1973 • 425 citations

Scaling Stride Frequency and Gait to Animal Size: Mice to Horses

1974 • 410 citations

Der ruheumsatz von Vögeln als Funktion der Tageszeit und der Körpergröße

1970 • 388 citations

Dimensions of Animals and their Muscular Dynamics

1949 • 384 citations

Comparative Quantitative Morphology of the Mammalian Lung: Diffusing Area

1963 • 362 citations

Standard metabolism, body temperature, and surface areas of Australian marsupials

1970 • 359 citations

Bioenergetics and growth with special reference to the efficiency complex in domestic animals

1946 • 324 citations

Diffusion in Insect Wing Muscle, the Most Active Tissue Known

1964 • 230 citations

Oxygen Dissociation Curves of Mammalian Blood in Relation To Body Size

1958 • 225 citations

Vital Energetics: A Study in Comparative Basal Metabolism

1939 • 190 citations

Running on Two or on Four Legs: Which Consumes More Energy?

1973 • 172 citations

How animals work

1972 • 169 citations

How Animals Work

1972 • 157 citations

Energy metabolism, body size, and problems of scaling.

1970 • 146 citations

Bioenergetics and body size in dasyruid marsupials

1969 • 146 citations

Energy cost of bipedal running

1974 • 125 citations

The Weights of Dinosaurs

1963 • 103 citations

The failure of exoskeletons and endoskeletons

1967 • 74 citations

Relation between basal metabolism and mature body-weight in different species of mammals and birds.

1932 • 68 citations

Evolution Emerging: A Survey of Changing Patterns from Primeval Life to Man

1951 • 38 citations

A revised restoration of the skeleton of Baluchi-therium, gigantic fossil rhinoceros of Central Asia

1935 • 10 citations

Heat production of different cells.

1948 • 9 citations