West, Bruce J.; West, Damien - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 390 (2011) 10, pp. 1733-1736
The allometric relationship between the basal metabolic rate B and total body mass M is B = aMb, where the allometry coefficient a and the allometry exponent b have been fit to various data sets for over 150 years. The best fit of the allometry exponent to 391 mammalian species is given by...