The pace-of-life syndrome describes covariation between life-history, behavioral and physiological traits; while, the emerging behavioral–bioenergetics theory proposes mechanistic links between those traits in a spatial–ecological context. However, little is known about the association between the limits to metabolic rate and spatial performance (i.e., mobility, home range size) in free-living individuals. Here we show, for the first time at the intra-specific level, that mobility traits increased with the aerobic exercise capacity (\(\dot{V}\)O₂max) in a wild rodent, the bank vole (Myodes glareolus): \(\dot{V}\)O₂max affected directly the movement intensity, which in turn affected home ranges. The results show that evolution of high \(\dot{V}\)O₂max could be driven by selection for spatial performance traits, and corroborate one of the key assumptions of the behavioral–bioenergetics theory. However, the minimum maintenance metabolism, measured as the basal metabolic rate (BMR), was not correlated with movement intensity, and the direction of the BMR–home range correlation tended to change with age of the voles. The latter result indicates that testing the theory will be particularly challenging.

生活节奏综合症描述了生活史，行为和生理特征之间的协变；同时，新兴的行为-生物能学理论提出了在空间生态环境中这些特征之间的机械联系。然而，人们对鲜活个体的代谢率极限与空间性能（即活动能力，家庭范围大小）之间的关系知之甚少。在这里，我们首次在种内水平上显示出，野性啮齿动物（田鼠（Myodes glareolus））的有氧运动能力（\（\ dot {V} \） O ₂ max）随着运动能力的增加而增加。：\（\ dot {V} \） O ₂max直接影响运动强度，进而影响起始范围。结果表明，高\（\ dot {V} \） O ₂ max的演化可能受空间性能特征的选择驱动，并证实了行为-生物能学理论的关键假设之一。但是，最低维持代谢（以基础代谢率（BMR）衡量）与运动强度无关，并且BMR与起始范围相关的方向倾向于随田鼠的年龄而变化。后一个结果表明检验该理论将特别具有挑战性。