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SUBMITTER: Deng JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2265546 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Deng Jian-Ming JM Li Tao T Wang Gen-Xuan GX Liu Jing J Yu Ze-Long ZL Zhao Chang-Ming CM Ji Ming-Fei MF Zhang Qiang Q Liu Jian-Quan JQ
PloS one 20080319 3
The energetic equivalence rule, which is based on a combination of metabolic theory and the self-thinning rule, is one of the fundamental laws of nature. However, there is a progressively increasing body of evidence that scaling relationships of metabolic rate vs. body mass and population density vs. body mass are variable and deviate from their respective theoretical values of 3/4 and -3/4 or -2/3. These findings questioned the previous hypotheses of energetic equivalence rule in plants. Here w ...[more]