Yes, West, Brown and Enquist"s model of allometric scaling is both mathematically correct and biologically relevant

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A survey of remote sensing-based aboveground biomass estimation methods in forest ecosystems (2016, background): “In particular, taller trees have disproportionally a larger biomass (Brown et al. 2005).”
Reconsidering the mechanistic basis of the metabolic theory of ecology (2007, background): “Distributive networks and allometric optimization The core assertion of the MTE is that minimizing the cost of transport in distribution networks requires quarter power allometries, which provides the mechanistic basis for understanding these relationships (West et al. 1997, West and Brown 2005).”
Ecology of Leaf Longevity (2011, background): “There also may be some fundamental linkages of this sort that extend to the scaling of metabolic activity for all organisms (West et al. 1997; Brown et al. 2005), including plants (Reich 2001; Enquist et al. 2007; Price and Enquist 2007).”