A general model for metabolic scaling in self-similar asymmetric networks.

How a particular attribute of an organism changes or scales with its body size is known as an allometry. Biological allometries, such as metabolic scaling, have been hypothesized to result from selection to maximize how vascular networks fill space yet minimize internal transport distances and resis...

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Main Authors: Alexander Byers Brummer, Van M Savage, Brian J Enquist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5378416?pdf=render