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Scaling in biology
- Title
- Scaling in biology / editors, James H. Brown, Geoffrey B. West.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2000], ©2000.
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- Description
- xiii, 352 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Santa Fe Institute studies in the science of complexity
- Uniform Title
- Proceedings volume in the Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity.
- Subjects
- Note
- Papers from a symposium held at Santa Fe Institute, Oct. 27-29, 1997.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Scaling in biology : patterns and processes, causes and consequences / James H. Brown, Geoffrey B. West, and Brian J. Enquist -- Allometry and natural selection / John Tyler Bonner and Henry S. Horn -- Hovering and jumping : contrasting problems in scaling / R. McNeill Alexander -- Scaling of terrestrial support : differing solutions to mechanical constraints of size / Andrew A. Biewener -- Consequences of size change during ontogeny and evolution / Mimi A.R. Koehl -- The origin of universal scaling laws in biology / Geoffrey B. West, James H. Brown, and Brian J. Enquist -- Scaling and invariants in cardiovascular biology / John K-J. Li -- Vascular system of the human heart : some branching and scaling issues / Mair Zamir -- Constrained constructive optimization of arterial tree models / Wolfgang Schreiner ... [et al.] -- Quarter-power allometric scaling in vascular plants : functional basis and ecological consequences / Brian J. Enquist, Geoffrey B. West, and James H. Brown -- Twigs, trees, and the dynamics of carbon in the landscape / Henry S. Horn -- Cell size, shape, and fitness in evolving populations of bacteria / Richard E. Lenski and Judith A. Mongold -- Does body size optimization alter the allometries for production and life history traits? / Jan Kozłowski -- Why and how phylogenetic relationships should be incorporated into studies of scaling / Paul H. Harvey -- Individual energy use and the allometry of population density / Hélène Cyr -- Diversity and convergence : scaling for conservation / William A. Calder -- Scaling and self-similarity in species distributions : implications for extinction, species richness, abundance, and range / John Harte.
- ISBN
- 019513141X (cl. : alk. paper)
- 0195131428 (pa. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99042515
- OCLC
- ocm42289900
- SCSB-3862735
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries