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Corresponding author: Tiziana Di Lorenzo (tiziana.dilorenzo@cnr.it)
Received: 28 Apr 2022 | Published: 14 Jul 2022
© 2022 Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira
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Di Lorenzo T, Reboleira ASP (2022) Metabolic scaling and thermal acclimation of the cave asellid Proasellus lusitanicus. ARPHA Conference Abstracts 5: e85959. https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.5.e85959
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Metabolism is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms. It scales allometrically to the body mass in ecto- and endotherm organisms, implying that larger individuals are more economical in terms of energy requirements. Within the limited range of “biologically relevant” temperatures (from 0° to 40°C), the allometric scaling with a factor between 0.66 and 0.75 has been consistently observed in unicellular microbes and plentiful multicellular plants and animals (
oxygen consumption, metabolism, allometric scaling, functional trait
Tiziana Di Lorenzo
We thank Marta Palma, Claudia Duarte and Maria João Medina for all kinds of help in lab work, and Pedro Souto for support in fieldwork. All specimens were collected under permits of the Instituto de Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas.
This research was funded by CNR Shot Term Mobility Program (2021) and MUR-FOE-PROJECT Capitale Naturale – Task Biodiversità. This work was supported by the VILLUM FONDEN (research grant 15471), by the project “Sustainability of subterranean ecosystems” financed by the Cooperation protocol with the Municipality of Alcanena, and by Portuguese National Funds through “Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia” (FCT) within the cE3c Unit funding UIDB/00329/2020.
Conceptualization, TDL, ASR; methodology, TDL; validation, TDL, ASR; formal analysis, TDL; investigation, TDL, ASR; resources, TDL, ASR; data curation, TDL, ASR; writing-original draft preparation, TDL, ASR; writing-review and editing TDL, ASR; project administration, TDL, ASR; funding acquisition, TDL, ASR.
None declared.