...Gary C. Packard ABSTRACT Students of biological allometry have used the logarithmic transformation for over a century to linearize bivariate distributions that are curvilinear on the arithmetic scale. When the distribution is linear, the equation for a straight line fitted to the distribution can...

...Gary C. Packard ABSTRACT Several investigations in recent years have reported patterns of discontinuous, biphasic, loglinear variation in the metabolic allometry of aquatic animals. These putative shifts in pattern of allometry have been attributed to changes in the primary site for gas exchange...

...Gary C. Packard ABSTRACT Complex allometry describes a smooth, curvilinear relationship between logarithmic transformations of a biological variable and a corresponding measure for body size when the observations are displayed on a bivariate graph with linear scaling. The curvature...

..., indicating no group benefit in metabolism. Metabolism Scaling Collective behaviors Allometry Army Research Office http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000183 W911NF-19-1-0086 NSF Division of Integrative Organismal Systems http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000154 1953451...

... and Rodentia mammals, larger species evolved larger cells of different cell types; in Galliformes birds, large-cell species evolved lower metabolic rates per unit mass. Allometry BMR Body size Concerted evolution Interspecific scaling Karyoplasmic ratio Metabolic rate Optimal cell size Species...

..., necessitating an increasing bone allowable stress with size, but mammalian bone ultimate stress (or strain) has been shown to be relatively constant ( Biewener, 1982 ). Animals appear to compensate by changing other aspects of their morphology, such as that demonstrated by the allometry of limb moment arms...