The scaling of respiratory metabolism with body mass is one of the most pervasive
phenomena in biology. Using a single allometric equation to characterize empirical scaling …

Metabolism is the process by which individual organisms acquire energy and materials from
their environment and use them for maintenance, differentiation, growth, and reproduction …

The reasons why metabolic rate (B) scales allometrically with body mass (M) remain hotly
debated. The field is dominated by correlational analyses of the relationship between B and …

The picture that emerges in this book is of sunlight flooding the Earth. Dotted about the
landscape are organisms: plants, animals, and microbes. Living things are found nearly …

Body size and temperature are fundamental drivers of ecological processes because they
determine metabolic rates at the individual level. Whether these drivers act independently …

Biomass allocation patterns have received substantial consideration, leading to the
recognition of several 'universal'interspecific trends. Despite efforts to understand biomass …

Benthic colonial organisms exhibit a wide variation in size and shape and provide excellent
model systems for testing the predictions of models that describe the scaling of metabolic …

We investigated whole-plant leaf area in relation to ontogenetic variation in leaf-size for a
forest perennial herb, Cardiocrinum cordatum. The 200-fold ontogenetic variability in C …

Allometric biomass allocation theory predicts that leaf biomass (ML) scaled isometrically with
stem (MS) and root (MR) biomass, and thus above‐ground biomass (leaf and stem)(MA) and …

Phenological changes among plants due to climate change are well documented, but often
hard to interpret. In order to assess the adaptive value of observed changes, we study how …