Cancer as a Model System for Testing Metabolic Scaling Theory [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Biological allometries, such as the scaling of metabolism to mass, are hypothesized to result from natural selection to maximize how vascular networks fill space yet minimize internal transport distances and resistance to blood flow.
Alexander B. Brummer +7 more
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Plant interactions alter the predictions of metabolic scaling theory. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Metabolic scaling theory (MST) is an attempt to link physiological processes of individual organisms with macroecology. It predicts a power law relationship with an exponent of -4/3 between mean individual biomass and density during density-dependent ...
Yue Lin +4 more
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A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2019 Metabolic scaling theory (MST) is one of ecology's most high-profile general models and can be used to link size distributions and productivity in forest systems. Much of MST's foundation is based on size distributions following a power law function with a scaling exponent of −2, a property assumed to be consistent in steady-state ecosystems. We tested
McCarthy JK, Dwyer JM, Mokany K.
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Testing the strength and direction of selection on vocal frequency using metabolic scaling theory [PDF]
Ecosphere, 2021 A major challenge for studies assessing drivers of phenotypic divergence is the statistical comparison of taxa with unique, often unknown, evolutionary histories, and for which there are no clear expected trait values.
Clinton D. Francis, Matthew R. Wilkins
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Integrating metabolic scaling and coexistence theories. [PDF]
Ecology, 2023 Abstract Metabolic scaling theory has been pivotal in formalizing the expected energy expenditures across populations as a function of body size. Coexistence theory has provided a mathematization of the environmental conditions compatible with multispecies coexistence.
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Tree Morphologic Plasticity Explains Deviation from Metabolic Scaling Theory in Semi-Arid Conifer Forests, Southwestern USA. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 A significant concern about Metabolic Scaling Theory (MST) in real forests relates to consistent differences between the values of power law scaling exponents of tree primary size measures used to estimate mass and those predicted by MST.
Tyson L Swetnam +2 more
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Toward a metabolic scaling theory of crop systems. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2012 Stable and secure food production is essential to civilization. Any methods that improve our understanding of crop yields have the potential to reduce human suffering and help provide the caloric needs of an expanding world population. Similar hopes apply to commodity crops such as cotton and those used to meet energy needs.
Gross LJ, Beckage B.
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Intraspecific Versus Interspecific Scaling of Metabolic Rate: Tests of the Metabolic Theory of Ecology Across Biological Hierarchies [PDF]
BiologyThe Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) proposes universal constants for the scaling of metabolic rate (BMR) with body mass and temperature. However, the validity of these constants across different biological hierarchies, specifically within versus ...
Jiayin Wang, Lei Zhao
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Co-variation and trade-offs in ontogenetic scaling of growth and metabolic rates in teleost fish [PDF]
Communications BiologyThe influential metabolic theory of ecology proposes that metabolic rate determines growth and ecological processes in a universal, size-dependent manner, scaling with body mass0.75.
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Forest Ecosystems, 2020 Background Metabolic scaling theory (MST) is still in debate because observed allometric exponents often deviate from MST predictions, and can change significantly depending on environment, phylogeny, and disturbance.
Han Sun, Xiangping Wang, Dayong Fan
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