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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Metabolic Scaling"”.
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A Contravention of Established Principles of Interspecific Allometric Metabolic Scaling in Developing Silkworms, Bombyx Mori.
Established interspecific metabolic allometric relationships do not adequately describe the complexity and variable physiological states of developing animals. Consequently, intraspecific allometric relationships of oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production as a function of body mass; the …
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Metabolic Scaling Analysis of Building Energy Efficiency: A Case Study of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
… the sector. This research applies ecological metabolic scaling principles to building energy analysis, utilizing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus as a case study. Analogous to biological systems, where an animal’s metabolic rate scales to 3/4 power of its mass, our …
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Scaling in the immune system
… and how they depend on species body size. Metabolic scaling theory predicts that intracellular processes are slower in larger animals since cellular metabolic rates are slower. We test how rates of pathogenesis and immune system response rates depend on species body size. We hypothesize …
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On the Space Filling Nature of Trees: Clarifying and Validating a Model of Plant Architecture With Laser Scans of Tree Crowns
The scaling of mass and energy in the biosphere is most dramatically illustrated in forest ecosystems. Individual plants can span up to 12 orders of magnitude in size as they climb through a canopy. During growth, trees allocate carbon and water dynamically to meet a variety of physiological and …
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Energy Flow in a Floodplain Aquifer Ecosystem
… gut contents. The invertebrate respiration scaling exponent was 0.474 (+/- 0.068, 95% CI) across six orders in body mass, which is significantly lower than the ¾ power scaling predicted by metabolic theory. Invertebrate production was dominated by copepods (Diacyclops, Acanthocyclops, …
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Energy Flow in a Floodplain Aquifer Ecosystem
… gut contents. The invertebrate respiration scaling exponent was 0.474 (+/- 0.068, 95% CI) across six orders in body mass, which is significantly lower than the ¾ power scaling predicted by metabolic theory. Invertebrate production was dominated by copepods (Diacyclops, Acanthocyclops, …