Revising the distributive networks models of West, Brown and Enquist (1997) and Banavar, Maritan and Rinaldo (1999): Metabolic inequity of living tissues provides clues for the observed allometric scaling rules

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 291-301

  Makarieva, Anastassia M ^a,b   Gorshkov, Victor G ^a   Li, Bai Lian ^b  

^a PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Brain; Leaves; Metabolism; Scaling

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; METABOLISM;

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BRAIN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TISSUE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; MAMMALS; METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS;

EID: 26944454808     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.04.016     Document Type: Article

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