Physiology - Plants on a different scale

被引:18
作者
Hedin, LO [1 ]
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[1] Princeton Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
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10.1038/439399a
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Is there a unified theory that relates size and metabolic rate across all organisms? Maybe not, according to the results of experiments that measured respiration in plants of widely varying mass. ©2006 Nature Publishing Group.
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