Asymmetric Branching in Biological Resource Distribution Networks

There is a remarkable relationship between an organism's metabolic rate (resting power consumption) and the organism's mass. It may be a universal law of nature that an organism's resting metabolic rate is proportional to its mass to the power of 3/4. This relationship, known as Kleib...

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Main Author: Brummer, Alexander B.
Other Authors: Enquist, Brian J.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624308
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/624308