Detection of energetic equivalence depends on food web architecture and estimators of energy use - Nature Communications The universality of the energetic equivalence rule has long been debated. Here, the authors show that across 183 soil invertebrate food webs, size–density and energy use varied with trophic level, ene...

Detection of energetic equivalence depends on food web architecture & estimators of energy use ... the "need to integrate food web energetics & trophic structure to better understand body size structure of ecosystems" #allometry #metabolicscalingtheory www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌐

A scaling thought:
We get stuck when the phenomenon lives outside the scale we can manipulate.
-Abiogenesis: too small
-Cosmology: too large
-Fusion: too nonlinear
-LLMs: too big to iterate
Maybe discovery hits limits when scale outruns tools.
#scaling, #allometry

Formatted version of our new #allometry paper is out!

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Check out our recent work led by austindelacruz.bsky.social
Assessing the allometric scaling of seed mass and fruit mass and tests several hypotheses about the influence of evolutionary history and seed dispersal mode on these patterns royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #allometry 🧪🌐

The conceptual framework of testing ecological theories and explaining the predictive errors for the warming responses of plant biomass.

Junjiong Shao et al. rigorously investigated how this #Allometry can predict the biomass responses to #GlobalWarming.

#FunctionalEquilibriumTheory | #LeafArea | #MetabolicScalingTheory | #PlantBiomass

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Increasing tree size across Amazonia - Nature Plants A global research network monitoring the Amazon for 30 years reports in this study that tree size increased by 3% each decade.

Increasing tree size across Amazonia 🧪🌐 #allometry www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments Organismal abundance typically declines with increasing body size, with metabolic theory predicting a universal size–abundance slope of –0.75. Using protist microcosms across gradients of species ric...

Biodiversity modulates the cross-community scaling relationship in changing environments #allometry #scaling 🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Using FlyCellAtlas+experiments, we reveal how organs scale via cell size/number diffs: bigger female flight muscles from more myoblasts, larger hearts from bigger cardiomyocytes, & fat body tweaks. Allometric Framework for sex diffs in growth!

#Drosophila #SSD #Allometry #Preprint

SYMPOSIUM OUTLOOK: Beyond the usual suspects: expanding aging research from classic models to really cool critters
By Amy Walker @akw-lab.bsky.social
➡️ genesdev.cshlp.org/content/39/1...

#animalmodels #aging #longevity #allometry #immune #metabolism #environment #openaccess #lifespan #genomics

Also 🚦 green 🍏 lighted the enormously talented Tanvi Kale working on E coli cell shape mechanics - #cytoskeleton and #pressure. Thesis writing race is on! Author of a #comic #zine papers on #cellsizevariability #allometry and #turgor pressure #microscopy #image-analysis #simulations

#MetabolicScalingTheory #Allometry

Map showing the location of the study sites from the 333 articles in the meta-analysis.

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
📖 #NitrogenAddition affects plant biomass allocation but not allometric relationships among different organs across the #Globe

#Meta-analysis | #Allometry | #BiomassFraction | #Ecosystem | #PlantFunctionalType

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Simple, Universal Rules Predict Trophic Interaction Strengths Two simple, universal rules derived from energetic arguments predict the parameters of predator functional responses that underlie the strengths of trophic interactions. Furthermore, theory developed...

Simple, Universal Rules Predict Trophic Interaction Strengths #scaling #allometry #bodysize 🧪🌐onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.701...

Megalodon is hostage to an anthropomorphic interpretation hyper iconic-metaphorical of the fossil remains (strong allometry & heterochrony)?? | ResearchGate Read 3 answers by scientists with 2 recommendations from their colleagues to the question asked by Salvatore Vicidomini on Jan 3, 2024

#Megalodon is #hostage to an anthropomorphic interpretation hyper #iconic-metaphorical of the #fossil remains?? A #shark subject to strong #allometry & #heterochrony?? #Otodus re-interpretation need?? .. www.researchgate.net/post/Megalod...

The novel approach? Dynamic allometric scaling.
Instead of a single snapshot, Cruz et al. analyzed temporal shifts in COVID-19 scaling across wild-type, alpha, delta, and omicron waves—linking cases, deaths, demographics, and ICU capacity #Scaling #allometry 2/

🎯 PURPOSE OF REVIEW:
Review #FieldMeasurements of forest C that aim to quantify the store & flux of C across of trees & forests using tree based #allometry, C accounting and climate change related variables

I created a feed to capture scaling research, approaches & posts w the hashtag(s) #scaling, #allometry .... 🧪🌎🦋🦫 bsky.app/profile/did:...

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A starter pack for researchers using #scaling #allometry methods in ecology, economics, computer science, physical sciences, etc. Scaling offers insights into complex systems, linking dynamics from cells to individuals to societies & ecosystems - please add your name! go.bsky.app/EuNK9Na 🧪🦋🦫

The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates The trade-off between growth and reproduction in trees suggests that larger species should reproduce later. However, our synthesis reveals that the largest species begin reproducing at smaller sizes ...

The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates 🧪 #allometry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

An allometry perspective on crops Understanding trait–trait coordination is essential for successful plant breeding and crop modeling. Notably, plant size drives variation in morphological, physiological, and performance-related trai...

Check out our new paper - An allometry perspective on crops nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... we review how an #allometry & #scaling perspective on crops gives insights into phenotypic evolution, hybrid vigor, domestication, crop yields & a novel theory for the #GreenRevolution 🧪🌎🌾🦋

Frontiers | Effects of different sowing dates on biomass allocation of various organs and allometric growth of Fagopyrum esculentum IntroductionThe sowing date plays a crucial role in influencing the growth and reproduction of plants, with its specific impact on biomass allocation and all...

Effects of different sowing dates on biomass allocation of various organs and allometric growth of Fagopyrum esculentum #Allometry doi.org/10.3389/fpls...

Allometric relationships and trade‐offs in 11 common Mediterranean‐climate grasses <em>Ecological Applications</em> is an applied ecology journal discussing the applications of ecological science research for policy, management, and solving environmental problems.

Our (Charles Koven and Lara Kueppers) paper on #allometry and trade-offs in carbon investment for California grasses is now out esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/..., w/ species and functional type specific allometric equations for above and belowground structures available.

#Forest #Fragmentation Is #Changing The #Shape Of #Amazonian #Trees

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#GIS #spatial #mapping #amazon #rainforest #brazil #remotesensing #LiDAR #clearing #vegetation #canopy #deforested #tropical #forestedge #treehealth #allometry #foresthealth #carbonsequestration #climatechange

Onthophagus hecate. Representative male with a large pronotal horn with four protuberances: A) Dorsal, B) Lateral. Representative male with a small pronotal horn with two protuberances: C) Dorsal, D) Lateral. Representative female: E) Dorsal, F) Ventral. Black arrows indicate bifurcation and protuberances. White lines indicate the pronotum width representing the body size (solid line in A) and pronotal horn size (dashed lines in A and E). The black dashed line in (B) indicates the clypeus height used in this study. Females do not develop a prominent clypeus; however, we measured its height using equivalent points (F). Scale bars: 1 mm. One scale bar is used for A, C, and E, and a second scale bar for B and D, and a third for F.

#LiteratureNotice Johnson et al. Allometric Relationships between Body Width and Horn Size in the Dung Beetle Onthophagus hecate (Panzer, 1794) (#Coleoptera: #Scarabaeidae: #Scarabaeinae)
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#Beetle #Beetles #ScarabBeetles #DungBeetles #Allometry #TheColeopteristsBulletin

2️⃣Elevated developmental temperatures impact the size and #allometry of #morphologicaltraits of the #bumblebee Bombus terrestris

Why over-harvesting and size-grading can be so devastating to fish stocks. A 30-kg mother cod produces as many offspring as 37 small mothers totaling 74 kg! #allometry #Scaling http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6389/642.full

He gets it wrong by assuming leg length (L) should scale proportionately to body mass (L³). #allometry #selborne