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Testing the Metabolic Scaling Theory of tree growth
Journal of Ecology, 2009Summary 1. Metabolic Scaling Theory (MST) predicts a ‘universal scaling law’ of tree growth. Proponents claim that MST has strong empirical support: the size‐dependent growth curves of 40 out of 45 species in a Costa Rican forest have scaling exponents indistinguishable from the MST prediction. 2.
David A Coomes, Robert B Allen
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TESTING THE METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY: ALLOMETRIC SCALING EXPONENTS IN MAMMALS
Ecology, 2007Many fundamental traits of species measured at different levels of biological organization appear to scale as a power law to body mass (M) with exponents that are multiples of 1/4. Recent work has united these relationships in a "metabolic theory of ecology" (MTE) that explains the pervasiveness of quarter-power scaling by its dependence on basal ...
Richard P Duncan, , Jim Hone
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Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 2012
Metabolism, growth, and the assimilation of energy and materials are essential processes that are intricately related and depend heavily on animal size. However, models that relate the ontogenetic scaling of energy assimilation and metabolism to growth rely on assumptions that have yet to be rigorously tested.
Katie E, Sears +3 more
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Metabolism, growth, and the assimilation of energy and materials are essential processes that are intricately related and depend heavily on animal size. However, models that relate the ontogenetic scaling of energy assimilation and metabolism to growth rely on assumptions that have yet to be rigorously tested.
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Metabolic scaling theory in plant biology and the three oxygen paradoxa of aerobic life
Theory in Biosciences, 2013Alfred Russell Wallace was a field naturalist with a strong interest in general physiology. In this vein, he wrote that oxygen (O2), produced by green plants, is "the food of protoplasm, without which it cannot continue to live". Here we summarize current models relating body size to respiration rates (in the context of the metabolic scaling theory ...
Ulrich Kutschera, Karl J. Niklas
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Metabolic scaling theory and its application in microbial ecology
Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2013Metabolisms are fundamental processes of organisms. These processes affect material recycling and energy transfer of the organisms in different environments. Metabolism determines the demands that organisms place on their environment for all resources, and sets powerful constraints on allocation of resources to all components of fitness.
贺纪正 HE Jizheng +2 more
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Protoplasma, 2011
Fifty years ago Max Kleiber described what has become known as the "mouse-to-elephant" curve, i.e., a log-log plot of basal metabolic rate versus body mass. From these data, "Kleiber's 3/4 law" was deduced, which states that metabolic activity scales as the three fourths-power of body mass.
Ulrich, Kutschera, Karl J, Niklas
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Fifty years ago Max Kleiber described what has become known as the "mouse-to-elephant" curve, i.e., a log-log plot of basal metabolic rate versus body mass. From these data, "Kleiber's 3/4 law" was deduced, which states that metabolic activity scales as the three fourths-power of body mass.
Ulrich, Kutschera, Karl J, Niklas
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Towards a metabolic theory of catchments: scaling of water and carbon fluxes with size [PDF]
Allometric scaling relations are widely used to link biological processes in nature. They are typically expressed as power laws, postulating that the metabolic rate of an organism scales as its mass to the power of an allometric exponent, which ranges between 2/3 and 3/4.
Francesca Bassani +2 more
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Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals [PDF]
Ecology, 2010 The scaling of metabolic rates to body size is widely considered to be of great biological and ecological importance, and much attention has been devoted to determining its theoretical and empirical value.
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