Universal scaling of maximum speed with body mass - Why the largest animals are not the fastest

Myriam R. Hirt; Walter Jetz; Bjöern C. Rall; Ulrich Brose

doi:10.1101/095018

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Universal scaling of maximum speed with body mass - Why the largest animals are not the fastest

Myriam R. Hirt, Walter Jetz, Bjöern C. Rall, Ulrich Brose

doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/095018

Myriam R. Hirt

1German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

2Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger-Str. 159, 07743, Jena, Germany

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Walter Jetz

1German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

3Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 165 Prospect Street, New Haven, 06511 Connecticut, United States of America

4Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Ascot, United Kingdom

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Bjöern C. Rall

1German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

2Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger-Str. 159, 07743, Jena, Germany

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Ulrich Brose

1German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

2Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger-Str. 159, 07743, Jena, Germany

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Universal scaling of maximum speed with body mass - Why the largest animals are not the fastest

Myriam R. Hirt, Walter Jetz, Bjöern C. Rall, Ulrich Brose

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Universal scaling of maximum speed with body mass - Why the largest animals are not the fastest

Myriam R. Hirt, Walter Jetz, Bjöern C. Rall, Ulrich Brose

bioRxiv 095018; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/095018

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