Mean mass-specific metabolic rates are strikingly similar across life's major domains: Evidence for life's metabolic optimum

A fundamental but unanswered biological question asks how much energy, on average, Earth's different life forms spend per unit mass per unit time to remain alive. Here, using the largest database to date, for 3,006 species that includes most of the range of biological diversity on the planet--f...

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