Supply-demand balance in outward-directed networks and Kleiber's law

Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Painter, Page R ^a  

^a California Environmental Protection   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EVALUATION; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; THEORETICAL STUDY; VALIDATION STUDY; WATER SUPPLY; ANIMAL; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WATER; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY WATER; FRACTALS; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 30044446161     PISSN: 17424682     EISSN: 17424682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4682-2-45     Document Type: Article

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