The origin and maintenance of metabolic allometry in animals
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White, Craig R.; Marshall, Dustin J.; Alton, Lesley A.; Arnold, Pieter; Beaman, Julian E.; Bywater, Candice L.; Condon, Catriona; Crispin, Taryn S.; Janetzki, Aidan; Pirtle, Elia; Winwood-Smith, Hugh S.
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Organisms vary widely in size, from microbes weighing 0.1 pg to trees weighing thousands of megagrams — a 1021-fold range similar to the difference in mass between an elephant and the Earth. Mass has a pervasive influence on biological processes, but the effect is usually non-proportional; for example, a tenfold increase in mass is typically accompanied by just a four- to sevenfold increase in metabolic rate. Understanding the cause of allometric scaling has been a long-standing problem in...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2019 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/173748 |
Source: | Nature Ecology & Evolution |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41559-019-0839-9 |
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