Metabolic Compensations and Differential Costs

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What is the primary factor that has been used to explain metabolic compensations?

  • Temperature (correct)
  • Latitude
  • Growth rate
  • Exploitation of food resources

What is suggested to be a possible consequence of differential metabolic costs?

  • Maintenance of variation in temperature
  • Maintenance of variation in growth rate (correct)
  • Maintenance of variation in food resources
  • Maintenance of variation in latitude

What is the primary concept discussed in the text?

  • Latitudinal variation in growth rate capacity
  • Temperature variations in food resources
  • Metabolic rate differences related to latitude (correct)
  • Exploitation of food resources over a short growth season

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