The Fourth Dimension of Life: Fractal Geometry and Allometric Scaling of Organisms

DOI10.1126/SCIENCE.284.5420.1677zbMath1226.37058OpenAlexW2000902397WikidataQ33863970 ScholiaQ33863970MaRDI QIDQ3101362

James H. Brown, Brian J. Enquist, Geoffrey B. West

Publication date: 28 November 2011

Published in: Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/1666fad6fbd651cada1d4ad8eb5831d7f5fbafb0

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Dynamical systems in biology (37N25) General biology and biomathematics (92B05)

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