A Sceptics View: “Kleiber’s Law” or the “3/4 Rule” is neither a Law nor a Rule but Rather an Empirical Approximation
Early studies showed the metabolic rate (MR) of different-sized animals was not directly related to body mass. The initial explanation of this difference, the “surface law”, was replaced by the suggestion that MR be expressed relative to massn, where the scaling exponent “n” be empirically determine...
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MDPI AG
2014-04-01
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| Series: | Systems |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/2/2/186 |