Publications

2022

White, C.R., Alton, L.A., Bywater, C.L., Lombardi, E.J., and Marshall, D.J. (2022) Metabolic scaling is the product of life history optimization. Science. 377: 834-839.

2021

Schuster, L., Cameron, H., White, C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2021) Metabolism drives demography in an experimental field test. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 118: e2104942118.

White, C.R., Marshall, D.J., Chown, S.L., Clusella-Trullas, S., Portugal, S.J., Franklin, C.E. and Seebacher, F. (2021) Geographic bias in physiological data limits predictions of global change impacts. Functional Ecology. 35: 1572-1578.

Arnold, P.A., Delean, S., Cassey, P. and White, C.R. (2021) Meta-analysis reveals that resting metabolic rate is not consistently related to fitness and performance in animals. Journal of Comparative Physiology – B. 191: 1097-1110.

2020

Alton, L.A., Kutz, T.C., Bywater, C.L., Beaman, J.E., Arnold, P.A., Mirth, C.K., Sgrò, C.M. and White, C.R. (2020) Developmental nutrition modulates metabolic responses to projected climate change. Functional Ecology. 34: 2488-2502.

Lombardi, E.J., Bywater, C.L. and White, C.R. (2020) The effect of ambient oxygen on the thermal performance of a cockroach, Nauphoeta cinerea. Journal of Experimental Biology. 223: jeb208306.

Marshall, D.J., Pettersen, A.K., Bode, M. and White, C.R. (2020) Developmental Cost Theory predicts thermal environment and vulnerability to global warming. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4. 406-411.

2019

Halsey, L.G. and White, C.R. (2019) Terrestrial locomotion energy costs vary considerably between species: no evidence that this is explained by rate of leg force production or ecologyScientific Reports 9: 656.

Ohmer, M.E.B., Cramp, R.L., White, C.R., Harlow, P.S., McFadden, M.S., Merino-Viteri, A., Pessier, A.P., Wu, N.C., Bishop, P.J. and Franklin, C.E. (2019) Phylogenetic investigation of skin sloughing rates in frogs: relationships with skin characteristics and disease-driven declinesProceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 20182378

Seymour, R.S., Hu, Q., Snelling, E.P. and White, C.R. (2019) Interspecific scaling of blood flow rates and arterial sizes in mammalsJournal of Experimental Biology jeb.199554.

Lawson, C.L., Halsey, L.G., Hays, G.C., Dudgeon, C.L., Payne, N.L., Bennett, M.B., White, C.R., and Richardson, A.J. (2019) Powering ocean giants: the energetics of shark and ray megafauna. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 34: 1109-1021.

Malerba, M.E., White, C.R. & Marshall, D.J. (2019) The outsized trophic footprint of marine urbanisation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 17: 400-406.

Marshall, D.J. and White, C.R. (2019) Have we outgrown the existing models of growth? Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 34: 102-111.

Pettersen, A.K., White, C.R., Bryson-Richardson, R.J. and Marshall, D.J. (2019) Linking life-history theory and metabolic theory explains the offspring size-temperature relationship. Ecology Letters. 22: 518-526.

Portugal, S.J., White, C.R., Frappell, P.B., Green, J.A., and Butler, P.J. (2019) Impacts of “supermoon” events on the physiology of a wild bird. Ecology and Evolution. 9: 7974-7984.

Schuster, L. White, C.R., and Marshall, D.J. (2019) Influence of food, body size and fragmentation on metabolic rate in a sessile marine invertebrate. Invertebrate Biology. 138: 55-66.

White, C.R., Marshall, D.J., Alton, L.A., Arnold, P.A., Beaman, J.E., Bywater, C.L., Condon, C., Crispin, T.S., Janetzki, A., Winwood-Smith, H.S., Angilleta, M.J., Jr, Chenoweth, S.F., Franklin, C.E., Halsey, L.G., Kearney, M.R., Portugal, S.J., Ortiz-Barrientos, D. (2019) The origin and maintenance of metabolic allometry in animals. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3: 598-603.

2018

Barneche, D.R., Robertson, D.R., White, C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2018) Fish reproductive-energy output increases disproportionately with body size. Science 360: 642-645.

Bywater, C.L., Wilson, R.S., Monro, K. and White, C.R. (2018) Legs of male fiddler crabs evolved to compensate for claw exaggeration and enhance claw functionality during waving displaysEvolution 72: 2491-2502.

Dunn, R.E., White, C.R. and Green, J.A. (2018) A model to estimate seabird field metabolic ratesBiology Letters 14: 20180190.

Ghedini, G., Loreau, M., White, C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2018) Testing MacArthur’s minimisation principle: do communities minimise energy wastage during succession? Ecology Letters 21: 1182-1190.

Ghedini, G., White, C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2018) Metabolic scaling across succession: do individual rates predict community-level energy use? Functional Ecology 32: 1447-1456.

Malerba, M.E., White, C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2018) Eco‐energetic consequences of evolutionary shifts in body sizeEcology Letters 21: 54-62.

Marshall, D.J. and White, C.R. (2018) Have we outgrown the existing models of growth? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 34:102-111.

Naya, D.E., Naya, H. and White, C.R. (2018) On the interplay among ambient temperature, basal metabolic rate and body massThe American Naturalist 192: 518-524.

Pettersen, A.K., Marshall, D.J. and White, C.R. (2018) Understanding variation in metabolic rate. Journal of Experimental Biology 221: jeb166876.

Pettersen, A.K., White, C.R., Bryson-Richardson, R.J. and Marshall, D.J. (2018) Does the cost of development scale allometrically with offspring size? Functional Ecology 32: 762-772.

Portugal, S.J. and White, C.R. (2018) Miniaturization of biologgers is not alleviating the 5% ruleMethods in Ecology and Evolution 9:1662-1666.

Portugal, S.J., White, C.R., Green, J.A. and Butler, P.J. (2018) Flight feather moult drives minimum daily heart rate in wild geeseBiology Letters 14: 20180650.

Prokopuk, L., Stringer, J.M., White, C.R., Vossen, R.H.A.M., White, S.J., Cohen, A.S.A., Gibson, W.T. and Western, P.S. (2018) Loss of maternal EED results in postnatal overgrowthClinical Epigenetics 10: 95.

Soerensen, J.G., White, C.R., Duffy, G.A. and Chown, S.L. (2018) A widespread thermodynamic effect, but maintenance of biological rates through space across life’s major domainsProceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20181775.

Winwood-Smith, H.S. and White, C.R. (2018) Short-duration respirometry underestimates metabolic rate for discontinuous breathersJournal of Experimental Biology 221: jeb175752.

2017

Alton, L.A., Condon, C., White, C.R. and Angilletta, M.J. (2017) Colder environments did not select for a faster metabolism during experimental evolution of Drosophila melanogasterEvolution 71: 145-152

Arnold, P.A., Cassey, P., Rafter, M.A., Malekpour, R., Walter, G.H. and White, C.R. (2017) Investigating movement in the laboratory: dispersal apparatus designs and the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneumEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 163: 93-100

Arnold, P.A., Cassey, P. and White, C.R. (2017) Functional traits in red flour beetles: the dispersal phenotype is associated with leg length but not body size nor metabolic rateFunctional Ecology 31: 653-661

Barneche, D.R., White, C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2017) Temperature effects on mass-scaling exponents in colonial animals: a manipulative testEcology 98: 103-111

Fox, C.W., Thompson, K., Irschick, D.J., Knapp, A.K., White, C.R., Aimé, E. and Meyer, J.A. (2017) 30 years of Functional EcologyFunctional Ecology 31: 4-6

Ghedini, G., White, C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2017) Does energy flux predict density-dependence? An empirical field testEcology 98: 3116-3126

Grémillet, D., White, C.R., Authier, M., Dorémus, G., Ridoux, V., and Pettex, E. (2017) Ocean sunfish as indicators for the ‘rise of slime’. Current Biology 27: R1263-1264.

Halsey, L.G. and White, C.R. (2017) A different angle: comparative analyses of whole-animal transport costs running uphillJournal of Experimental Biology 220: 161-166

Lagos, M.E., Barneche, D.R., White, C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2017) Do low oxygen environments facilitate marine invasions? Relative tolerance of native and invasive species to low oxygen conditionsGlobal Change Biology 23: 2321-2330

Lagos, M.E., White, C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2017) Do invasive species live faster? Mass-specific metabolic rate depends on growth form and invasion statusFunctional Ecology 31: 2080-2086

Malerba, M.E., White, C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2017) Phytoplankton size-scaling of net-energy flux across light and biomass gradientsEcology 98: 3106-3115

Ohmer, M.E.B., Cramp, R.L., Russo, C.J.M., White, C.R. and Franklin, C.E. (2017) Skin sloughing in susceptible and resistant amphibians regulates infection with a fungal pathogenScientific Reports 7: 3529

Olito, C., White, C.R., Marshall, D.J. and Barneche, D.R. (2017) Estimating monotonic rates from biological data using local linear regressionJournal of Experimental Biology 220: 759-764

Polymeropoulos, E.T., Oelkrug, R., White, C.R. and Jastroch, M. (in press) Phylogenetic analysis of the allometry of metabolic rate and mitochondrial basal proton leak. Journal of Thermal Biology 68: 83-88

Portugal, S.J., Ricketts, R., Chappell, J., White, C.R., Shepard, E.L. and Biro, D. (2017). Boldness traits, not dominance, predict exploratory flight range and homing behaviour in homing pigeons. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences 372: 20160234

Portugal, S.J., Sivess, L., Martin, G.R., Butler, P.J. and White, C.R. (2017) Perch height predicts dominance rank in birdsIbis 159: 456-462

Tate, M., McGoran, R.E., White, C.R. and Portugal, S.J. (2017) Life in a bubble: the role of the labyrinth organ in determining territory, mating and aggressive behaviours in anabantoidsJournal of Fish Biology 91: 723-749

Winwood-Smith, H.S., Franklin, C.E. and White, C.R. (2017) Low carbohydrate diet induces metabolic depression: a possible mechanism to conserve glycogenAmerican Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 313: R347-R356

2016

Arnold, P.A., Cassey, P. and White, C.R. (2016) Maturity matters for movement and metabolic rate: trait dynamics across the early adult life of red flour beetles. Animal Behaviour 111: 181-188

Beaman, J.E., White, C.R. and Seebacher, F. (2016) Evolution of plasticity: Mechanistic link between development and acclimation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 31: 237-249

Lagos M.E., White C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2016) Biofilm history and oxygen availability interact to affect habitat selection in a marine invertebrate. Biofouling 32: 645-655

Pettersen, A.K., White, C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2016) Metabolic rate covaries with fitness and the pace of the life history in the field. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283: 20160323

Taggart, D.A., Schultz, D.J., Corrigan, T.C., Schultz, T.J., Stevens, M., Panther, D. and White, C.R. (2016) Reintroduction methods and a review of mortality in the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby, Grampians National Park, Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 63: 383-397

Turschwell, M.P. and White, C.R. (2016) The effects of laboratory housing and spatial enrichment on brain size and metabolic rate in the eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki. Biology Open 5: 205-2010

Verberk, W.C.E.P., Bartolini, F., Marshall, D., Pörtner, H., Terblanche, J., White, C.R. and Giomi, F. (2016) Can respiratory physiology predict thermal niches? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1365: 73-88

White, C.R., Alton, L.A., Crispin, T.S. and Halsey, L.G. (2016) Phylogenetic comparisons of pedestrian locomotion costs: confirmations and new insightsEcology and Evolution 6: 6712-6720

2015

Arnold, P.A., White, C.R. and Johnson, K.N. (2015) Drosophila melanogaster does not exhibit a behavioural fever response when infected with Drosophila C virus. Journal of General Virology 96: 3667-3671

Heenan, C.B., Goodman, B.A. and White, C.R. (2015) The influence of climate on avian nest construction across large geographical gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24: 1203-1211

Lagos M.E., White C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2015) Avoiding low oxygen environments: oxytaxis as a mechanism of habitat selection in a marine invertebrate. Marine Ecology Progress Series 540: 99-107

Ohmer, M.E.B., Cramp, R.L., White, C.R. and Franklin, C.E. (2015) Skin sloughing rate increases with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection intensity in a susceptible amphibian. Functional Ecology 29: 674-682

Pettersen, A.K., White, C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2015) Why does offspring size affect performance? Integrating metabolic scaling with life-history theory. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20151946

Seebacher, F., White, C.R. and Franklin, C.E. (2015) Physiological plasticity increases resilience of ectothermic animals to climate change. Nature Climate Change 5: 61-66

White, C.R. and Seymour, R.S. (2015) Blood pressure increases with body size in mammals. Evolution 69: 3221-3223

Winwood-Smith, H.S., Alton, L.A., Franklin, C.E. and White, C.R. (2015) Does enhanced thermal plasticity allow expansion of an invasive terrestrial anuran into higher latitudes? Conservation Physiology 3: doi: 10.1093/consphys/cov010

Wu, N.C., Alton, L.A., Clemente, C.J., Kearney, M.R. and White, C.R. (2015) Morphology and burrowing energetics of semi-fossorial skinks (Liopholis). Journal of Experimental Biology 218: 2416-2426

2014

Bartrim, H., Matthews, P.G.D., Lemon, S. and White, C.R. (2014) Oxygen induced tracheal plasticity alters the exhibition of discontinuous gas exchange cycles in the speckled cockroach (Nauphoeta cinerea). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 184: 977-990

Bywater, C.L. White, C.R. and Wilson, R.S. (2014) Metabolic incentives for dishonest signals of strength in crustaceans. Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 2848-2850

White, C.R. and Kearney, M.R. (2014) Metabolic scaling in animals: methods, empirical results, and theoretical explanations. Comprehensive Physiology 4: 231-256

White, C.R. and Seymour, R.S. (2014) The role of gravity in the evolution of mammalian blood pressure. Evolution 68: 901-908

2013

Alton, L.A., Portugal, S.J. and White, C.R. (2013) Balancing the competing requirements of air-breathing and display behaviour during male-male interactions in Siamese fighting fish Betta splendens. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 164: 363-367

Arnold, P.A., Johnson, K.N. and White, C.R. (2013) Physiological and metabolic consequences of viral infection in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 3350-3357

Crispin, T.S. and White, C.R. (2013) The effect of thermal acclimation on organ mass, tissue respiration and allometry in Leichhardtian river prawns, Macrobrachium tolmerum (Riek, 1951). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 86: 470-481

Ferguson, N., White, C.R. and Marshall, D.J. (2013) Competition in benthic marine invertebrates: the unrecognised role of exploitative competition for oxygen. Ecology 94: 126-135

Green, J.A., Aitken-Simpson, E.J., White, C.R., Bunce, A., Butler, P.J. and Frappell, P.B. (2013) An increase in minimum metabolic rate and not activity explains field metabolic rate changes in a breeding seabirdJournal of Experimental Biology 216: 1726-1735

Hancox, D. Wilson, R.S. and White, C.R. (2013) Visual habitat geometry predicts relative morph abundance in the colour-polymorphic ornate rainbowfish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 20122377

Marshall, D.J., Bode, M. and White, C.R. (2013) Estimating physiological tolerances – a comparison of traditional approaches to nonlinear regression techniques. Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 2176-2182

Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2013) Reversible brain inactivation induces discontinuous gas exchange in cockroaches. Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 2012-2016

Merritt, L., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2013) Performance correlates of resting metabolic rate in garden skinks Lampropholis delicata. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 183: 663-673

Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2013) Discontinuous gas exchange exhibition is a heritable trait in speckled cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26: 1588-1597

Trappett, A. Condon, C., White, C.R., Matthews, P.G.D. and Wilson, R.S. (2013) Extravagant ornaments of male threadfin rainbowfish (Iriatherina werneri) are not costly for swimming. Functional Ecology 27: 1034-1041

White, C.R., Cassey, P., Schimpf, N.G., Halsey, L.G., Green, J.A. and Portugal, S.J. (2013) Implantation reduces the negative effects of bio-logging devices on birdsJournal of Experimental Biology 216: 537-542

White, C.R, Green, J.A., Martin, G.R., Butler, P.J. and Grémillet, D. (2013) Energetic constraints may limit the capacity of visually-guided predators to respond to Arctic warmingJournal of Zoology 289: 119-126

White, C.R. and Kearney, M.R. (2013) Determinants of inter-specific variation in basal metabolic rateJournal of Comparative Physiology B 183: 1-26

White, C.R., Schimpf, N.G. and Cassey, P.  (2013) The repeatability of metabolic rate declines with timeJournal of Experimental Biology 216: 1763-1765

2012

Alton, L.A., White, C.R., Wilson, R.S. and Franklin, C.E. (2012) The energetic cost of exposure to UV radiation for tadpoles is greater when they live with predators. Functional Ecology 26: 94-103

Halsey, L.G. and White, C.R. (2012) Comparative energetics of mammalian locomotion: humans are not differentJournal of Human Evolution 63: 718-722

Kearney, M.R. and White, C.R. (2012) Testing metabolic theories. American Naturalist 180: 546-565

Matthews, P.G.D., Snelling, E.P., Seymour, R.S. and White, C.R. (2012) A test of the oxidative damage hypothesis for discontinuous gas exchange in the locust Locusta migratoria. Biology Letters 8: 682-684

Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2012) Discontinuous gas exchange, water loss and metabolism in Protaetia cretica (Cetoniinae, Scarabaeidae). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 85: 174-182

Mitchell, T., Alton, L.A., White, C.R. and Franklin, C.E. (2012) Relations between conspecific density and effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on tadpole size in the striped marsh frog. Conservation Biology 26: 1112-1120

Polymeropoulos E. T., Heldmaier G., Frappell P.B., McAllan B.M., Withers K.W., Klingenspor M., White, C.R., Jastroch M. (2012) Phylogenetic differences of mammalian basal metabolic rate are not explained by mitochondrial basal proton leak. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 185-193

Schimpf, N.G. Matthews, P.G.D., and White, C.R. (2012) Cockroaches that exchange respiratory gases discontinuously survive food and water restriction. Evolution 66: 597-604

Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D, and White, C.R. (2012) Standard metabolic rate is associated with gestation duration, but not clutch size, in speckled cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea. Biology Open 1: 1185-1191

Seymour, R.S., Smith, S.L., White, C.R., Henderson, D.M. and Schwarz-Wings, D. (2012) Blood flow to long bones indicates activity metabolism in mammals, reptiles and dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 451-456

Snelling E.P., Seymour, R.S., Matthews, P.G.D., and White, C.R. (2012) Maximum metabolic rate, relative lift, wingbeat frequency, and stroke amplitude during tethered-flight in the adult locust Locusta migratoria. Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 3317-3323

Snelling E.P., Seymour, R.S., Runciman, S., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2012) Symmorphosis and the insect respiratory system: a comparison between flight and hopping muscle. Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 3324-3333

White, C.R., Alton, L.A. and Frappell, P.B. (2012) Metabolic cold adaptation in fish occurs at the level of whole animal, mitochondria, and enzyme. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 1740-1747

White, C.R., Frappell, P.B. and Chown, S.L. (2012) An information theoretic approach to evaluating the size and temperature dependence of metabolic rate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 3616-3621

2011

Halsey, L.G., White, C.R., Enstipp, M.R., Wilson, R.P., Butler, P.J., Martin, G.R., Grémillet, D.and Jones, D.R. (2011) Assessing the validity of the accelerometry technique for estimating the energy expenditure of diving double-crested cormorants Phalacrocorax auritus. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 84: 230-237

Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2011) Discontinuous gas exchange in insects: Is it all in their heads? American Naturalist 177: 130-134

Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2011) Regulation of gas exchange and acid-base balance in the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea. Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 3062-3073

Portugal, S.J., Green, J.A., White, C.R., Guillemette, M. and Butler, P.J. (2011) Wild geese do not increase flight behaviour prior to migration. Biology Letters 8: 469-472

Seymour, R.S. and White, C.R. (2011) Can the basal metabolic rate of endotherms be explained by biophysical modeling? Response to “A new model for the body size–metabolism relationship”. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 84: 107-110

Snelling, E.P., Seymour, R.S., Matthews, P.G.D., Runciman, S. and White, C.R. (2011) Scaling of resting and maximum hopping metabolic rate throughout the lifecycle of the locust (Locusta migratoria). Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 3218-3224

Snelling, E.P., Seymour, R.S., Runciman, S., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2011) Symmorphosis and the insect respiratory system: allometric variation. Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 3225-3237

White, C.R. (2011) Allometric estimation of metabolic rates in animals. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 158: 346-357

White, C.R., Boertmann, D., Grémillet, D., Butler, P.J., Green, J.A. and Martin, G.R. (2011) The relationship between sea surface temperature and population change of Great Cormorants breeding near Disko Bay, Greenland. Ibis 153: 170-174

White, C.R., Grémillet, D., Green, J.A., Martin, G.R. and Butler, P.J. (2011) Metabolic rate throughout the annual cycle reveals the demands of an Arctic existence in Great Cormorants. Ecology 92: 475-486

White, C.R., Kearney, M.R., Matthews, P.G.D., Kooijman, S.A.L.M. and Marshall, D.J. (2011) A manipulative test of competing theories for metabolic scaling. American Naturalist 178: 746-754

Willis, R.E., White, C.R. and Merritt, D.J. (2011) Using light as a lure is an efficient predatory strategy in Arachnocampa flava, an Australian glowworm. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 181: 477-486

Young, K.M., Cramp, R.L., White, C.R. and Franklin, C.E. (2011) Influence of elevated temperature on metabolism during aestivation: implications for muscle disuse atrophy. Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 3782–3789

2010

Finlayson, G.R., White, C.R., Dibben, R., Shimmin, G.A. and Taggart, D.A. (2010) Activity patterns of the southern hairy-nosed wombat, Lasiorhinus latifrons (Marsupialia: Vombatidae), in the South Australian Murraylands. Australian Mammalogy 32: 39-46

Green, J.A., White, C.R., Bunce, A., Frappell, P.B. and Butler, P.J. (2010) Energetic consequences of plunge diving in gannets. Endangered Species Research 10: 269-279

Halsey, L.G. and White, C.R. (2010) Measuring energetics and behaviour using accelerometry in cane toads Bufo marinus. PLoS ONE 5: e10170

Vaca, H.F. and White, C.R. (2010) Environmental modulation of metabolic allometry in ornate rainbowfish Rhadinocentrus ornatus. Biology Letters 6: 136-138

White, C.R. (2010) There is no single p. Nature 464: 691–693 (News and Views article)

2009

Lamprecht, I., Seymour, R.S., White, C.R., Matthews, P.G.D. and Wadsö, L. (2009) Discontinuous ventilation in the rhinoceros beetle Oryctes nasicornis – direct and indirect calorimetry. Journal of Thermal analysis and Calorimetry 95: 743-747

Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D., Wilson, R.S. and White, C.R. (2009) Cockroaches breathe discontinuously to reduce respiratory water loss. Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 2773-2780

Seymour, R.S., White, C.R. and Gibernau, M.  (2009) Endothermy of dynastine scarab beetles (Cyclocephala colasi) associated with pollination biology of a thermogenic aroid (Philodendron solimoesence)Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 2960-2968

White, C.R., Blackburn, T.M. and Seymour R.S. (2009) Phylogenetically informed analysis of the allometry of mammalian basal metabolic rate supports neither geometric nor quarter-power scalingEvolution 63: 2658-2667

2008

Halsey, L.G., Shepard, E.L.C., Hulston, C.J., Venables, M.C., White, C.R., Jeukendrup, A.E. and Wilson, R.P. (2008) Acceleration versus heart rate for estimating energy expenditure and speed during locomotion in animals: tests with an easy model species, Homo sapiens. Zoology 111: 231-241

Martin, G.R., White, C.R. and Butler, P.J. (2008) Vision and the foraging technique of Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo: pursuit or flush-foraging? Ibis 150: 485-494

Terblanche, J.S., White, C.R., Blackburn, T.M., Marais, E.L. and Chown, S.L. (2008) Scaling of gas exchange cycle frequency in insects. Biology Letters 4: 127-129

White, C.R., Butler, P.J., Grémillet, D. and Martin, G.R. (2008) Behavioural strategies of cormorants Phalacrocoracidae foraging under challenging light conditions. Ibis 150: 231-239

White, C.R., Martin, G.R. and Butler, P.J. (2008) Pedestrian locomotion energetics and gait characteristics of a diving bird, the great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carboJournal of Comparative Physiology B 178: 745-754

White, C.R., Martin, G.R. and Butler, P.J. (2008) Wing-spreading, wing-drying and food-warming great cormorants, Phalacrocorax carbo. Journal of Avian Biology 39: 576-578

White, C.R., Matthews, P.G.D. and Seymour, R.S. (2008) In situ measurement of calling metabolic rate in an Australian mole cricket, Gryllotalpa monanka. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 150: 217-221

White, C.R., Terblanche, J.S., Kabat, A.P., Blackburn, T.M. Chown, S.L. and Butler, P.J. (2008) Allometric scaling of maximum metabolic rate: the influence of temperature. Functional Ecology 22: 616–623

2007

Alton, L.A., White, C.R. and Seymour, R.S. (2007) Effects of aerial oxygen content on bimodal gas exchange and air-breathing behaviour in Trichogaster leeriJournal of Experimental Biology 210: 2311-2319

Finlayson, G.R., Taggart D.A., Shimmin, G.A., White, C.R., Dibben, R., Steele, V., Paris, M.C.J. and Temple-Smith, P.D. (2007) Pouch young removal and return to oestrous in wild southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons). Animal Reproduction Science 100: 216-222

Finlayson, G.R., Taggart, D.A., Shimmin, G.A., White, C.R., Steele, V., Paris, M.C.J. and Temple-Smith, P.D. (2007) The application of intra-species fostering techniques to the southern hairy-nosed wombat, Lasiorhinus latifrons. Pacific Conservation Biology 13: 259-263

Halsey, L.G., White, C.R., Enstipp, M.R., Jones, D.R., Martin, G.R. and Butler, P.J. (2007) When cormorants go fishing: the differing cost of hunting for sedentary and motile prey. Biology Letters 3: 574-576

Halsey, L.G., White, C.R., Fahlman, A. Handrich, Y. and Butler, P.J. (2007) Onshore energetics in penguins: Theory, estimation and ecological implications. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 147: 1009-1014

Taggart, D.A., Finlayson, G.R., Shimmin, G., Gover, C., Dibben, R., White, C.R., Steele, V. and Temple-Smith, P.D. (2007) Growth and Development of the Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat, Lasiorhinus latifrons (Vombatidae) in South Australia’s Murraylands. Australian Journal of Zoology 55: 309-316

White, C.R., Blackburn, T.M., Martin, G.R., and Butler, P.J. (2007) Basal metabolic rate of birds is associated with environmental temperature and precipitation, not primary productivity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 287-293

White, C.R., Blackburn, T.M., Terblanche, J.S., Marais, E., Gibernau, M. and Chown, S.L. (2007) Evolutionary responses of discontinuous gas exchange in insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 104: 8357-8361

White, C.R., Cassey, P. and Blackburn, T.M. (2007) Allometric exponents do not support a universal metabolic allometry. Ecology 88: 315-323

White, C.R., Day, N. Butler, P.J. and Martin, G.R. (2007) Vision and foraging in cormorants: more like herons than hawks. PloS ONE 2: e639

2006

Seymour, R.S. and White, C.R. (2006) Models for embryonic respiration. In Comparative Developmental Physiology: Contributions, Tools and Trends (Eds: Warburton, S.J., Burggren, W.W., Pelster, B., Reiber, C.L. and Spicer, J.), pp 41-57. New York: Oxford University Press.

White, C.R., Matthews, P.G.D. and Seymour, R.S. (2006) Balancing the competing requirements of saltatorial and fossorial specialisation: burrowing costs in the spinifex hopping mouse, Notomys alexis. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 2103-2113

White, C.R., Phillips, N.F. and Seymour, R.S. (2006) The scaling and temperature dependence of vertebrate metabolism. Biology Letters 2: 125-127

White, C.R., Portugal, S.J., Martin, G.R. and Butler, P.J. (2006) Respirometry: Drierite® equilibrates with carbon dioxide and increases washout times. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 79: 977-980

Wilson, R.P., White, C.R., Quintana, F., Halsey, L.G., Liebsch, N., Martin, G.R. and Butler, P.J. (2006) Moving towards acceleration for estimates of activity-specific metabolic rate in free-living animals: the case of the cormorant. Journal of Animal Ecology 75: 1081-1090

2005

Green, J.A., White, C.R. and Butler, P.J. (2005) Allometric estimation of metabolic rate from heart rate in penguins. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 142: 478-484

Martin, G.R., Jarrett, N., Tovey, P. and White, C.R. (2005) Visual fields in Flamingos: chick-feeding versus filter feeding. Naturwissenschaften 92: 351-354

Taggart, D.A., Schultz, D., White, C.R, Whitehead, P., Underwood, G. and Phillips, K. (2005) Cross-fostering, growth and reproductive studies in the brush-tailed rock wallaby, Petrogale penicillata (Marsupialia: Macropodidae). Efforts to accelerate breeding in a threatened species. Australian Journal of Zoology 53: 313-323

Taggart, D.A., Shimmin, G.A., Ratcliff, J.R.,  Steele, V.R., Dibben, R., Dibben, J., White, C.R. and Temple-Smith, P.D. (2005) Seasonal changes in the testis, accessory glands and ejaculate characteristics of the southern hairy-nosed wombat, Lasiorhinus latifrons, (Marsupialia: Vombatidae). Journal of Zoology 266: 95-104

White, C.R. (2005) The allometry of burrow geometry. Journal of Zoology 265: 395-403

White, C.R. and Seymour, R.S. (2005) Allometric scaling of mammalian metabolism. Journal of Experimental Biology 208: 1611-1619

White, C.R. and Seymour, R.S. (2005) Sample size and mass range effects on the allometric exponent of basal metabolic rate. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 142: 74-78

2004

White, C.R. and Seymour, R.S. (2004) Does BMR contain a useful signal?  Mammalian BMR allometry and correlations with a selection of physiological, ecological and life-history variables. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 77: 929-941

2003

Seymour, R.S., White, C.R. and Gibernau, M. (2003) Heat reward for insect pollinators. Nature 426: 243-244

White, C.R. (2003) The influence of foraging mode and arid adaptation on the basal metabolic rates of burrowing mammals. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 76: 122-134

White, C.R. (2003) Allometric analysis beyond heterogeneous regression slopes: Use of the Johnson-Neyman technique in comparative biology. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 76: 135-140

White, C.R. and Seymour, R.S. (2003) Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 100: 4046-4049

2001

White, C.R. (2001) The energetics of burrow excavation by the inland robust scorpion, Urodacus yaschenkoi (Birula 1903). Australian Journal of Zoology 49: 663-674
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