Geoffrey B. West
Ecology · 2000–2012
A researcher in the Science corpus: 14 papers; trusts 13 researchers and is trusted by 52 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.
Subfields
- Ecology — 32 citations into it; #274 of 10,717 by trust here, #154 by citations
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics — 16 citations into it; #5,508 of 6,648 by trust here, #2,712 by citations
- Nature and Landscape Conservation — 16 citations into it
- Genetics — 14 citations into it; #363 of 6,854 by trust here, #242 by citations
- Molecular Biology — 9 citations into it; #5,199 of 17,773 by trust here, #11,608 by citations
- Sociology and Political Science — 9 citations into it
- Global and Planetary Change — 8 citations into it; #3,186 of 10,225 by trust here, #1,617 by citations
Whom Geoffrey B. West trusts overall
Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.
- James H. Brown
- James F. Gillooly
- Van M. Savage
- Brian J. Enquist
- A. P. Allen
- C. R. White
- A. Clarke
- Karl J. Niklas
- E. Charnov
Who trusts Geoffrey B. West overall
- Douglas S. Glazier
- James H. Brown
- Kevin J. Gaston
- P. Lehodey
- A. P. Allen
- Brian J. Enquist
- Steven L. Chown
- Charles Auffray
- James F. Gillooly
- S. MacAvoy
Papers from Geoffrey B. West's perspective
Ordered by how strongly the researchers Geoffrey B. West trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.
- Invariant scaling relations across tree-dominated communities (Nature)
- Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
- Using the Past to Predict the Present: Confidence Intervals for Regression Equations in Phylogenetic Comparative Methods (American Naturalist)
- The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- Global Biodiversity, Biochemical Kinetics, and the Energetic-Equivalence Rule (Science)
- Is there a Universal Temperature Dependence of metabolism
- Toward a metabolic theory of ecology
- Effects of Body Size and Temperature on Population Growth (American Naturalist)
- Linking the global carbon cycle to individual metabolism
- Why does metabolism scale with temperature
Their papers
- Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities (2007) — 2,584 citations
- The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization (2005) — 786 citations
- The scaling of human interactions with city size (2012) — 356 citations
- Response to Clarke and Fraser: effects of temperature on metabolic rate (2006) — 120 citations
- Yes, West, Brown and Enquist"s model of allometric scaling is both mathematically correct and biologically relevant (2005) — 106 citations
- Effects of Body Size and Temperature on Population Growth (2004) — 949 citations
- Toward a metabolic theory of ecology (2004) — 7,205 citations
- RESPONSE TO FORUM COMMENTARY ON “TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY” (2004) — 142 citations
- The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology (2004) — 686 citations
- Effects of size and temperature on developmental time (2002) — 895 citations
- Allometric scaling of metabolic rate from molecules and mitochondria to cells and mammals (2002) — 689 citations
- A general model for ontogenetic growth (2001) — 1,124 citations
- Scaling in Biology (2000) — 339 citations
- Scaling in biology: patterns and processes, causes and consequences (2000) — 122 citations