Comparative allometric analysis of selected pharmacokinetic parameters of cloxacillin, dicloxacillin and flucloxacillin in four animal species (cats, dogs, pigs and sheep) was performed. The correlations between the total body clearance (CLB) and the volume of distribution (Vdarea) to the body weight of animals were established. They can be expressed by the equations: cloxacillin − CLB =5.68W ,...

For the evaluation of changes in the carbon stock of living biomass, two methods are reported in the Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry: (1) the default method, which requires the biomass carbon loss to be subtracted from the biomass carbon increment for the reporting year; and (2) the stock change method, which requires two consecutive biomass carbon stock inven...

The allometric scaling exponent of the relationship between standard metabolic rate (SMR) and body mass for homeotherms has a long history and has been subject to much debate. Provided the external and internal conditions required to measure SMR are met, it is tacitly assumed that the metabolic rate (B) converges to SMR. If SMR does indeed represent a local minimum, then short-term regulatory c...

BACKGROUND Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data may be a valuable component of a LIDAR-based carbon monitoring system, but integration of the two observation systems is not without challenges. To explore integration methods, two wall-to-wall LIDAR-derived biomass maps were compared to FIA data at both the plot and county levels in Anne Arundel and Howard Counties in Maryland. Allometric mod...

1. West et al . (2001) describe a general model of ontogenetic growth in which growth represents the surplus of energy acquisition over maintenance energy requirement, which themselves are allometric (power) functions of body mass with exponents 3 / 4 and 1, respectively. Furthermore, the intercept of the maintenance requirement decreases with the – 1 / 4 power of adult mass. 2. These relations...