A brief review on allometric scaling in biology

Authors:
Ji-Huan He
Affiliations:
College of Science, Donghua University, Shanghai, China
Venue:
CIS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Computational and Information Science
Year:
2004

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Abstract

A brief review on allometric scaling in biology is given. Dueling theories aim at explaining the mystery of how an animal's metabolic rate is related to its size, but no convincing result is so far obtained, so the allometric scaling in biology still keeps an intriguing and enduring problem. The contention throughout this body of literature focuses on the arguments for and against the Rubner law or Kleiber law.