The Critical Role of Coefficients: Updating Allometric Normalisation Constants for Modern Ecology and Modelling.
Allometry, the scaling traits or biological rates with body mass, is central to a wide range of ecological research including dynamic food web modelling. There has been extensive focus on exponents (3/4 scaling laws), but little on the coefficients (n
Authors
- Ulrich Brose (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9156-583X)
- Eva Delmas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6238-229X)
- Thomas Malpas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5575-609X)
- Christopher A. Griffiths (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7203-0426)
- John Jackson
- Thomas F. Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6363-1825)
- Benno I. Simmons (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-9430)
- Alain Danet (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1592-9483)
- Penelope S. A. Blyth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3071-9668)
- Andrew P. Beckerman
- A. M. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0999-2208)
- Hana Mayall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5722-8925)
Institutions
- University of Exeter (GB)
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (DE)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)
- Estación Biológica de Doñana (ES)
- University of Sheffield (GB)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-09-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.22541/au.175889383.36300790/v1
- Primary Topic
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- UK Research and Innovation
- Natural Environment Research Council