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Higher specific maximum ingestion rates are associated with higher maximum specific growth rates (P < 0.001, R2 = 0.42), lending support to our assumption that maximum ingestion rates and maximum assimilation rates are positively associated. This used an OLS regression. Taxonomic group variation was ignored because only six groups were present, and three of those had fewer than three points.
