The Upper and Lower Ecological Limits of Specific Metabolic Power of Different Organisms |
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| Authors: | Makarieva A M Gorshkov V G Li B-L Losev K S |
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| Institution: | (1) Konstantinov Institute of Nuclear Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gatchina, St. Petersburg, 188300, Russia;(2) Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521-0124, United States;(3) All-Russia Institute of Scientific and Technical Information, Moscow, 125315, Russia |
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| Abstract: | It has been demonstrated that bioenergetic properties of plants (independence of productivity from size, proportionality between radial growth of woody plants and plant mass, etc.) and animals are not related to the presumed universal linear relationship between metabolic power and body mass to the power of 3/4. This relationship is not true for plants and endothermic animals. The observed bioenergetic characteristics of these organisms are explained by simple biological and physical laws, including the existence of the lower and upper limits of the specific metabolic power of living matter. |
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| Keywords: | metabolic power body size leaf area index temperature allometry mammals |
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