Does the exception prove the rule? (Reply)

Lars O. Hedin ()
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Lars O. Hedin: Princeton University

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

Abstract: Abstract In my News & Views article1, I argued for the need to include factors other than body size to create a truly universal theory of plant scaling. I based my expectations for the metabolic scaling theory on Enquist's own conclusion that “unlike animal clades...all plants comply with a single allometric formula that spans 20 orders of magnitude in body mass”2. Because in this recent analysis the authors applied a ¾ scaling slope across plants ranging in size from unicellular algae (

Date: 2007
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