Scaling in biology /
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2000]
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| Series: | Proceedings volume in the Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity.
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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.