--- type: Paper Section title: Metabolic Scaling — References description: >- Reference list for the Part II manuscript, grouped by metabolic scaling theory, Mandelbrot's fractal geometry, allometry and historical background, fractal analysis methods, ecological applications, and thermodynamics and entropy. resource: https://tyson-swetnam.github.io/fractal-notebooks/metabolic-scaling/references/ tags: [paper, part-ii, reference, metabolic-scaling] paper: title: "Fractal Patterns in Nature: Self-Affinity vs Self-Similarity" part_title: Metabolic Scaling Theory and Biological Fractals landing: https://tyson-swetnam.github.io/fractal-notebooks/metabolic-scaling/ stage: manuscript-draft authors: - name: Tyson Lee Swetnam orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6639-7181 affiliation: Institute for Computation and Data-enabled Insight, University of Arizona - name: Jon D Pelletier orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0702-2646 affiliation: Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona - name: Brian J. Enquist orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6124-7096 affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona citation: key: swetnam2026fractals year: 2026 publisher: GitHub url: https://github.com/tyson-swetnam/fractal-notebooks sources: - id: banavar1999 resource: https://doi.org/10.1038/20144 title: Size and form in efficient transportation networks (Banavar, Maritan and Rinaldo 1999, Nature) - id: bentley2013 resource: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12127 title: An empirical assessment of tree branching networks and implications for plant allometric scaling models (Bentley et al. 2013, Ecology Letters) - id: brown2004 resource: https://doi.org/10.1890/03-9000 title: Toward a metabolic theory of ecology (Brown et al. 2004, Ecology) - id: enquist1998 resource: https://doi.org/10.1038/25977 title: Allometric scaling of plant energetics and population density (Enquist, Brown and West 1998, Nature) - id: enquist1999 resource: https://doi.org/10.1038/44819 title: Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants (Enquist et al. 1999, Nature) - id: smith2014 resource: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12487 title: Deviation from symmetrically self-similar branching in trees predicts altered hydraulics, mechanics, light interception and metabolic scaling (Smith et al. 2014, New Phytologist) generated: by: human:tswetnam at: "2025-12-14T00:00:00Z" status: draft --- # References Creative Commons License
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