. 2017 Mar 24;64(1):33–43. doi: 10.1093/cz/zox018

Table 1.

The average ratio of observed whole-organism BMR of tropical resident birds of different taxonomic groups from Vietnam to predicted BMR, estimated using allometric relationships between BMR and body mass from literature on corresponding groups

Literature source	a	b	Avian group	Ratio (%)
This study	195.75	0.573	Tropical (including migrants)	98.8
This study	200.18	0.581	Tropical (including migrants) (PC)	99.4
This study	267.49	0.622	Tropical migrants	84.9^**
This study	202.80	0.589	Tropical residents	100.0
Brody and Proctor (1932)	372.63	0.640	Temperate	65.6^**
King and Farner (1961)	335.36	0.659	Temperate	78.0^**
King and Farner (1961)	311.08	0.744	Large temperate (M > 125 g)	80.9^*
Lasiewski and Dawson (1967)	361.74	0.668	Temperate	74.7^**
Lasiewski and Dawson (1967)	540.10	0.724	Temperate passerines	64.6^**
Lasiewski and Dawson (1967)	327.83	0.723	Temperate non-passerines	90.8^*
Zar (1969)	324.06	0.739	Temperate	107.7
Zar (1969)	473.11	0.632	Temperate passerines	51.2^**
Zar (1969)	319.03	0.743	Temperate non-passerines	98.8
Aschoff and Pohl (1970)	480.64	0.726	Temperate passerines	73.2^**
Aschoff and Pohl (1970)	307.73	0.734	Temperate non-passerines	99.8
Bennett and Harvey (1987)	240.93	0.670	All	112.9^**
Daan et al. (1990)	361.32^a	0.677	All	77.2^**
Reynolds and Lee (1996)	343.17	0.670	All	79.3^**
Reynolds and Lee (1996)	339.25	0.635	All (PC)	70.8^**
Gavrilov (1997)	435.08	0.700	Passerines in summer	72.9^**
Gavrilov (1997)	349.65	0.710	Non-passerines in summer	82.0^**
Tieleman and Williams (2000)	308.32	0.638	All	78.8^**
Tieleman and Williams (2000)	279.90	0.677	All (PC)	99.7
Frappell et al. (2001)	471.39^a	0.680	Basically temperate	59.8^**
Frappell et al. (2001)	445.36^a	0.680	Basically temperate (PC)	63.3^**
Rezende et al. (2002)	329.64^a	0.635	All	72.9^**
Rezende et al. (2002)	399.98^a	0.721	All (PC)	81.7^**
McKechnie and Wolf (2004)	303.75	0.669	All	89.3^**
McKechnie and Wolf (2004)	243.51	0.677	All (PC)	114.6^**
Speakman (2005)	350.41	0.671	All	77.9^**
McKechnie et al. (2006)	315.1	0.744	All wild-caught birds (PC)	114.6^*
White et al. (2006)	243.35	0.640	All	100.5
Wiersma et al. (2007b)	307.97	0.644	Tropical passerines	82.4^**
Wiersma et al. (2007b)	262.73	0.644	Tropical non-passerines	90.7^*
McNab (2009)	314.47	0.652	All	81.2^**
McNab (2009)	429.69	0.713	Passerines	77.7^**
McNab (2009)	317.40	0.724	Non-passerines	94.1
McNab (2009)	451.02	0.708	Temperate passerines	71.6^**
McNab (2013)	234.97	0.581	Tropical (including non-residents)	84.7^**
McNab (2013)	245.39	0.634	Tropical residents	97.6
McNab (2013)	293.61	0.686	Tropical passerines	102.1
McNab (2013)	167.36	0.686	Tropical non-passerines	160.1^**
Londoño et al. (2015)	220.73^a	0.551	Tropical residents	82.3^**
Londoño et al. (2015)	193.95^a	0.543	Tropical residents (PC)	91.2^**
Londoño et al. (2015)	300.48^a	0.644	Tropical resident passerines	86.0^**
Londoño et al. (2015)	283.25^a	0.644	Tropical resident non-passerines	84.1^**
Londoño et al. (2015)	298.51^a	0.627	Tropical resident passerines (PC)	81.0^**
Londoño et al. (2015)	277.73^a	0.701	Tropical resident non-passerines (PC)	100.7

Notes: a is the allometric coefficient and b is the scaling exponent from equation BMR = aM^b, where BMR is basal metabolic rate in kJ/day and M is body mass in kg. PC means “phylogenetically corrected.” Temperate birds here include also species from high latitudes.

^aMarks recalculations based on equation 1 L of O₂ = 20.083 kJ of energy (Schmidt-Nielsen 1997).

P < 0.05;

^**

P < 0.001.