The space-lifetime hypothesis: viewing organisms in four dimensions, literally.

نویسندگان

  • Lev Ginzburg
  • John Damuth
چکیده

Much of the debate about alternative scaling exponents may result from unawareness of the dimensionality appropriate for different data and questions; in some cases, analysis has to include a fourth temporal dimension, and in others, it does not. Proportional scaling simultaneously applied to an organism and its generation time, treating the latter as a natural fourth dimension, produces a simple explanation for the 3/4 power in large-scale interspecies comparisons. Analysis of data sets of reduced dimensionality (e.g., data sets constructed such that one or more of the four dimensions are fixed), results in predictably lower metabolic exponents of 2/3 and 1/2 under one and two constraints, respectively. Our space-lifetime view offers a predictive framework that may be useful in developing a more complete mechanistic theory of metabolic scaling.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The American naturalist

دوره 171 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008