The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology

By Van M. Savage, James F. Gillooly, W. Woodruff, Geoffrey B. West, A. P. Allen, Brian J. Enquist, James H. Brown. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Infectious Diseases

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A reassessment of genetic limits to evolutionary change (2005, background): “For example, basal metabolic rate is closely tied to the size of organisms, and the relationship between size and metabolic rate in a wide range of organisms including mammals, invertebrates, and protists can be described by the same scaling func- C o nc epts & S ynth esis tion (Savage et al. 2004).”
Energy limitation as a selective pressure on the evolution of sensory systems (2008, background): “…animal’s total energy consumption can be measured using its metabolic rate, of which there are several available measures (for reviews, see Hammond and Diamond, 1997; White and Seymour, 2003; Savage et al., 2004; Weibel et al., 2004; Nagy, 2005; Suarez and Darveau, 2005; Weibel and Hoppeler, 2005).”
Temperature‐ and size‐scaling of phytoplankton population growth rates: Reconciling the Eppley curve and the metabolic theory of ecology (2017, background): “It has a theoretically predicted value of 21/4, based on properties related to the optimization of resource uptake and distribution networks (West et al. 1997, 1999a,b; Banavar et al. 1999; Brown et al. 2004; Savage et al. 2004).”
Yes, West, Brown and Enquist"s model of allometric scaling is both mathematically correct and biologically relevant (2005, background): “As concluded by several influential reviews of allometry in the early 1980s ( Peters 1983; McMahon & Bonner 1983; Calder 1984: Schmidt-Nielsen 1984), the preponderance of evidence does indeed support the pervasiveness of quarter-power allometries for biological rates and times (Savage et al. 2004; ”
Photosynthesis and respiration in marine phytoplankton: Relationship with cell size, taxonomic affiliation, and growth phase (2014, positive): “Since Kleiber first reported that metabolic rates in birds and mammals scale with body mass with a b value of 3/4 (Kleiber, 1932), this allometric relationship has proven to be applicable to a wide range of organisms, from unicells to multicellular organisms including large plants and animals (Savag”
The broad‐scale ecology of energy expenditure of endotherms (2005, background): “Although the exact scaling of metabolic rate has been subject to debate – regarding both its measurement and supporting biological mechanisms – both theoretical (West et al. 1997, 1999) and empirical (Savage et al. 2004) basis for a 3/4 power scaling (FMR M 0.75) are strong.”
Reconsidering the mechanistic basis of the metabolic theory of ecology (2007, background): “Classical regressions of metabolic rate on mass fall into this category (Peters 1983, 1991, Calder 1984, Schmidt-Nielsen 1984).”