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Global city densities: re-examining urban scaling theory
Joseph R. Burger, Jordan G. Okie, Ian Hatton +10
Understanding scaling relations of social and environmental attributes of urban systems is necessary for effectively managing cities. Urban scaling theory (UST) has assumed that po…
Branching principles of animal and plant networks identified by combining extensive data, machine learning, and modeling
Alexander B Brummer, Panagiotis Lymperopoulos, Jocelyn Shen +7
Branching in vascular networks and in overall organismic form is one of the most common and ancient features of multicellular plants, fungi, and animals. By combining machine-learn…
Scaling from traits to ecosystems: Developing a general Trait Driver Theory via integrating trait-based and metabolic scaling theories
Brian J. Enquist, Jon Norberg, Stephen P. Bonser +5
The rise of trait-based ecology has led to an increased focus on the distribution and dynamics of traits in communities. However, a general theory of trait-based ecology, that can…
Red herrings and rotten fish
Geoffrey B. West, Van M. Savage, James Gillooly +3
A longstanding problem in biology has been the origin of pervasive quarter-power allometric scaling laws that relate many characteristics of organisms to body mass (M) across the e…