A general basis for quarter-power scaling in animals

It has been known for decades that the metabolic rate of animals scales with body mass with an exponent that is almost always <1, >2/3, and often very close to 3/4. The 3/4 exponent emerges naturally from two models of resource distribution networks, radial explosion and hierarchically branche...

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Main Authors: Banavar, Jayanth R., Moses, Melanie E., Brown, James H., Damuth, John, Rinaldo, Andrea, Sibly, Richard M., Maritan, Amos
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: National Academy of Sciences 2010
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Biological Sciences
Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2936637/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20724663
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1009974107
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