Allometric cascades

Jayanth R. Banavar (), John Damuth, Amos Maritan and Andrea Rinaldo
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Jayanth R. Banavar: 104 Davey Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
John Damuth: Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California
Amos Maritan: International School for Advanced Studies
Andrea Rinaldo: Marittima e Geotecnica,Universita' di Padova

Nature, 2003, vol. 421, issue 6924, 713-714

Abstract: Abstract An allometric power-law relationship between metabolic rate and the mass of living organisms has been observed over many orders of magnitude in mass, indicating that (among other things) a characteristic mass scale is not applicable. Darveau et al.1 present a multiple-cause cascade model of metabolic allometry, which has been hailed as a new perspective on comparative integrative physiology2 and scaling relationships3. Here we show that this cascade model is flawed and is therefore meaningless both for control of metabolic rate in an organism of a given size and for scaling of the metabolic rate.

Date: 2003
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