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Developing nondestructive species‐specific tree allometry with terrestrial laser scanning
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Allometric equations predict organism attributes from simple measurements and underlie many global‐scale estimates, from plant productivity to ecosystem carbon stocks. In forests, destructive harvesting of trees in common groups (e.g.
Atticus E. L. Stovall +3 more
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A gentle introduction to scaling relations in biological systems
Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, 2022 In this paper it is presented a gentle review of empirical and theoretical advances in understanding the role of size in biological organisms. More specifically, it deals with how the energy demand, expressed by the metabolic rate, changes according to ...
Fabiano L. Ribeiro +1 more
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Effect of temperature and glia in brain size enlargement and origin of allometric body-brain size scaling in vertebrates [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Brain signaling requires energy. The cost of maintaining and supporting energetically demanding neurons is the key constraint on brain size.
Feng, Jianfeng +7 more
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Biological scaling in green algae: the role of cell size and geometry
Scientific Reports, 2021 The Metabolic Scaling Theory (MST), hypothesizes limitations of resource-transport networks in organisms and predicts their optimization into fractal-like structures.
Helena Bestová +5 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 The diameter at breast height (DBH) is the most important independent variable in biomass allometry models based on metabolic scaling theory (MST) or geometric theory. However, the fixed position DBH can be misleading in its use of universal scaling laws
Dongzhi Wang +3 more
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Variable metabolic scaling breaks the law: from ‘Newtonian’ to ‘Darwinian’ approaches
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022 Life's size and tempo are intimately linked. The rate of metabolism varies with body mass in remarkably regular ways that can often be described by a simple power function, where the scaling exponent (b, slope in a log-linear plot) is typically less than
D. S. Glazier
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Scaling laws in bacterial genomes: A side-effect of selection of mutational robustness? [PDF]
, 2010 In the past few years, numerous research projects have focused on identifying and understanding scaling properties in the gene content of prokaryote genomes and the intricacy of their regulation networks.
Beslon, Guillaume +14 more
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Allometric convergence in savanna trees and implications for the use of plant scaling models in variable ecosystems. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Theoretical models of allometric scaling provide frameworks for understanding and predicting how and why the morphology and function of organisms vary with scale.
Andrew T Tredennick +2 more
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Data from: Ontogenetic and interspecific metabolic scaling in insects [PDF]
, 2014 Design constraints imposed by increasing size cause metabolic rate in animals to increase more slowly than mass. This ubiquitous biological phenomenon is referred to as metabolic scaling.
Maino, James L., Kearney, Michael Ray
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