Demetrius, Lloyd - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 322 (2003) C, pp. 477-490
This article proposes a mechanism to explain allometric relations between basal metabolic rate and the body size of … which ecological and demographic forces impose on metabolic rate. These two processes are invoked to show that the scaling … exponent between basal metabolic rate and body size follows a 34 rule, in the case of organisms subject to ecological …