Extended Data Table 2 Regression coefficients used to calculate group-specific metabolic rates

From: Rainforest transformation reallocates energy from green to brown food webs

  1. Metabolic rates in Watt per gram (Me) were calculated using the formula:76 ln(Me) = ln(i0) + a ln(M) - E(1/kT), where i0 is a normalization factor, a is the allometric exponent (per unit mass), M is the fresh body mass in gram, E is the activation energy, k is the Boltzmann’s constant (8.62 * 10−5 eV K−1) and T is the environmental temperature in Kelvin. Standard errors, whenever available, are given as a measure of variation. Regression coefficients for vertebrates were taken from Brown et al. 11, all other coefficients from Ehnes et al. 82.
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