ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] A long-standing problem has been the origin of quarter-power allometric scaling laws that relate many characteristics of organisms to their body mass — specifically, whole-organism metabolic rate, B = aMb, where M is body mass, a is a taxon-dependent normalization, ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/421713a
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