Allometry is the study of how these processes scale with body size and with each other, and the impact this has on ecology and evolution. Allometry, in its broadest sense, describes how the characteristics of living creatures change with size.
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The analysis of scaling requires: first, measuring how a biological characteristic changes with size; second, understanding some useful properties of ...
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Scaling relationships are a persistent theme in biology. Examples include branching patterns of blood vessels, structural and functional correlates of body size ...
The change in size of similarly organized animals is considered in the light of the principles of scaling, with examples chosen both from morphology and ...
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Scaling in Biology, the first general treatment of scaling in biology in over 15 years, covers a broad spectrum of the most relevant topics in a series of ...
Scaling in biology explains how a system's characteristic is affected when another dependent factor changes. One of the prime examples of ...
There are three levels at which biologists have traditionally studied scaling relationships: within individual organisms, among different individual organ- ...
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Scaling relationships have been a persistent theme in biology at least since the time of Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo. Because scaling relationships are among the most general empirical patterns in biology, they have stimulated research to... Google Books
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Here, I explore whether a “time perspective” may help explain biological scaling patterns as much as or even more than that of an “energy perspective”.
Scaling in Biology, the first general treatment of scaling in biology in over 15 years, covers a broad spectrum of the most relevant topics.
Allometry, in biology, the change in organisms in relation to proportional changes in body size. An example of allometry can be seen in mammals.