allometric
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- adjective
- /ˌæl.əˈmɛt.ɹɪk/
- Specialized
- The concept of allometric growth helps scientists understand how different body parts of an organism grow in relation to one another.
- allometric relationships
- allometric scaling
- allometric divergence
Examples
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Allometric laws are descriptions of how things actually are, distilled from vast quantities of comparative biological data.
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Allometric formulas are power laws of the general form Y = aM^b.
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In every allometric plot, some species do veer away from the general trend.
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Thus, the authors conclude, "a common body of allometric theory promises to provide a general framework for explaining many features of biological diversity."
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So allometric cranial ontogeny is relative skull growth.
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The researchers accept that for each species, body size and life history parameters co-vary according to allometric relationships similar to Kleiber's Law.
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A new model of allometric scaling uses the physical and mathematical requirements of such networks to explain a longstanding biological mystery.
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Graphical depictions of allometric relationships are frequently referred to as mouse-elephant curves.
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Combined, these results suggested that differences in the intensity of intra- and interspecific competition could indeed drive allometric divergences between populations.
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Terrestrial ecosystem models predicting community productivity, structure, and succession are usually based on simple resource availability and allometric relationships involving plant biomass.
Academic text (2006)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word allometric comes from Greek parts allo- meaning 'other' and -metric from metron meaning 'measure'. So allometric describes when a part of an animal or plant grows at a different 'measure' or rate compared with the whole body.