Table of Contents:
  • Scaling in biology: patterns and processes, causes and consequences / James H. Brown, Geoffrey B. West, Brian J. Enquist
  • Allometry and natural selection / John Tyler Bonner, Henry S. Horn
  • Hovering and jumping: contrasting problems in scaling / R. McNeill Alexander
  • Scaling of terrestrial support: differing solutions to mechanical constraints of size / Andrew A. Biewener
  • Consequences of size change during ontogeny and evolution / Mimi A.R. Koehl
  • The origin of universal scaling laws in biology / Geoffrey B. West, James H. Brown, Brian J. Enquist
  • Scaling and invariants in cardiovascular biology / John K.-J. Li
  • Vascular system of the human heart: some branching and scaling issues / Mair Zamir
  • Constrained constructive optimization of arterial tree models / Wolfgang Schreiner ... [et al.]
  • Quarter-power allometric scaling in vascular plants: functional basis and ecological consequences / Brian J. Enquist, Geoffrey B. West, James H. Brown
  • Twigs, trees, and the dynamics of carbon in the landscape / Henry S. Horn
  • Cell size, shape, and fitness in evolving populations of bacteria / Richard E. Lenski, Judith A. Mongold
  • Does body size optimization alter the allometries for production and life history traits? / Jan Kozlowski
  • Why and how phylogenetic relationships should be incorporated into studies of scaling / Paul H. Harvey
  • Individual energy use and the allometry of population density / Hélène Cyr
  • Diversity and convergence: scaling for conservation / William A. Calder
  • Scaling and self-similarity in species distributions: implications for extinction, species richness, abundance, and range / John Harte.