A general basis for quarter-power scaling in animals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 36, 2010, Pages 15816-15820

  Banavar, Jayanth R ^a   Moses, Melanie E ^b,c   Brown, James H ^c,d   Damuth, John ^e   Rinaldo, Andrea ^f   Sibly, Richard M ^g   Maritan, Amos ^h  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f EPFL   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allometric; Fractal; Hierarchical; Metabolic rate; Network

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY MASS; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR BIOLOGY; VOLUMETRY; ANIMAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 77957658611     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009974107     Document Type: Article

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