Does the exception prove the rule? (Reply)

Peter B. Reich (), Mark G. Tjoelker, Jose-Luis Machado and Jacek Oleksyn
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Peter B. Reich: University of Minnesota
Mark G. Tjoelker: Texas A&M University, College Station
Jose-Luis Machado: Swarthmore College
Jacek Oleksyn: Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Dendrology

Nature, 2007, vol. 445, issue 7127, E10-E11

Abstract: Abstract Enquist et al. 1 raise several points that they claim cast doubt on our findings and interpretation2 regarding whole-plant relations of respiration, R, with plant mass, M, and total plant nitrogen content, N. We agree with Enquist et al. that R does not scale isometrically with M across all plants. However, their assertion that we claim that isometric scaling (R ∝ Mθ, with θ = 1) is universal in plants of all sizes is incorrect — in fact, we conclude the opposite2, noting that there is isometric scaling within individual experiments, non-isometric scaling of respiration versus mass across all data pooled, and no common relation across all data2.

Date: 2007
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