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Volkov, Igor |
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Tovo, Anna |
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Anfodillo, Tommaso |
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Rinaldo, Andrea |
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Maritan, Amos |
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Banavar, Jayanth R. |
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2023-10-10T18:26:31Z |
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dc.date.available |
2023-10-10T18:26:31Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2022-03-10 |
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Igor Volkov, Anna Tovo, Tommaso Anfodillo, Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan, Jayanth R Banavar, Seeing the forest for the trees through metabolic scaling, PNAS Nexus, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2022, pgac008, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac008 |
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https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac008 |
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https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/28965 |
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dc.description |
8 pages |
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dc.description.abstract |
We demonstrate that when power scaling occurs for an individual tree and in a forest, there is great resulting simplicity notwithstanding the underlying complexity characterizing the system over many size scales. Our scaling framework unifies seemingly distinct trends in a forest and provides a simple yet promising approach to quantitatively understand a bewilderingly complex many-body system with imperfectly known interactions. We show that the effective dimension, Dtree, of a tree is close to 3, whereas a mature forest has Dforest approaching 1. We discuss the energy equivalence rule and show that the metabolic rate–mass relationship is a power law with an exponent D/(D + 1) in both cases leading to a Kleiber’s exponent of 3/4 for a tree and 1/2 for a forest. Our work has implications for understanding carbon sequestration and for climate science. |
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en |
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Oxford Academic |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US |
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Climate science |
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Scaling |
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Forests |
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Ecology |
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Carbon sequestration |
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dc.title |
Seeing the forest for the trees through metabolic scaling |
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Article |
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