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Mean mass-specific metabolic rates are strikingly similar across life's major domains: Evidence for life's metabolic optimum by Makarieva, Anastassia M, Gorshkov, Victor G, Li, Bai-Lian, Chown, Steven L, Reich, Peter B, Gavrilov, Valery M

“…A fundamental but unanswered biological question asks how much energy, on average, Earth's different life forms spend per unit mass per unit time to remain…”
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Revisiting forest impact on atmospheric water vapor transport and precipitation by Makarieva, Anastassia M., Gorshkov, Victor G., Li, Bai-Lian

“…Using a robust global precipitation database, we analyze coast-to-interior seasonal precipitation distributions over the world’s major forest regions. We find…”
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Life's Energy and Information: Contrasting Evolution of Volume- versus Surface-Specific Rates of Energy Consumption by Makarieva, Anastassia M, Nefiodov, Andrei V, Li, Bai-Lian

“…As humanity struggles to find a path to resilience amidst global change vagaries, understanding organizing principles of living systems as the pillar for human…”
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Vegetation impact on atmospheric moisture transport under increasing land-ocean temperature contrasts by Makarieva, Anastassia M., Nefiodov, Andrei V., Nobre, Antonio Donato, Sheil, Douglas, Nobre, Paulo, Pokorný, Jan, Hesslerová, Petra, Li, Bai-Lian

“…Destabilization of the water cycle threatens human lives and livelihoods. Meanwhile our understanding of whether and how changes in vegetation cover could…”
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Energetics of the smallest: do bacteria breathe at the same rate as whales? by Makarieva, Anastassia M, Gorshkov, Victor G, Li, Bai-Lian

“…Power laws describing the dependence of metabolic rate on body mass have been established for many taxa, but not for prokaryotes, despite the ecological…”
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Gigantism, temperature and metabolic rate in terrestrial poikilotherms by Makarieva, Anastassia M, Gorshkov, Victor G, Li, Bai-Lian

“…The mechanisms dictating upper limits to animal body size are not well understood. We have analysed body length data for the largest representatives of 24 taxa…”
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The role of ecosystem transpiration in creating alternate moisture regimes by influencing atmospheric moisture convergence by Makarieva, Anastassia M., Nefiodov, Andrei V., Nobre, Antonio Donato, Baudena, Mara, Bardi, Ugo, Sheil, Douglas, Saleska, Scott R., Molina, Ruben D., Rammig, Anja

“…The terrestrial water cycle links the soil and atmosphere moisture reservoirs through four fluxes: precipitation, evaporation, runoff, and atmospheric moisture…”
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Comment on "Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny" by Makarieva, Anastassia M, Gorshkov, Victor G, Li, Bai-Lian

“…We demonstrate that the model of energy allocation during ontogeny of Hou et al. (Reports, 31 October 2008, p. 736) fails to account for the observed elevation…”
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Conservation of water cycle on land via restoration of natural closed‐canopy forests: implications for regional landscape planning by Makarieva, Anastassia M., Gorshkov, Victor G., Li, Bai‐Lian

“…Investigating the role of forests for maintenance of the water cycle on land is critically important in the current situation of rapid global elimination of…”
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Re-appraisal of the global climatic role of natural forests for improved climate projections and policies by Makarieva, Anastassia M., Nefiodov, Andrei V., Rammig, Anja, Nobre, Antonio Donato

“…Along with the accumulation of atmospheric greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, the loss of primary forests and other natural ecosystems is a major…”
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Fuel for cyclones: The water vapor budget of a hurricane as dependent on its movement by Makarieva, Anastassia M., Gorshkov, Victor G., Nefiodov, Andrei V., Chikunov, Alexander V., Sheil, Douglas, Nobre, Antonio Donato, Li, Bai-Lian

“…Despite the dangers associated with tropical cyclones and their rainfall, the origin of the moisture in these storms, which include destructive hurricanes and…”
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A critique of some modern applications of the Carnot heat engine concept: the dissipative heat engine cannot exist by Makarieva, Anastassia M., Gorshkov, Victor G., Li, Bai-Lian, Nobre, Antonio Donato

“…In several recent studies, a heat engine operating on the basis of the Carnot cycle is considered, where the mechanical work performed by the engine is…”
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Temperature-associated upper limits to body size in terrestrial poikilotherms by Makarieva, Anastassia M., Gorshkov, Victor G., Li, Bai-Lian

“…We show that the largest tropical species of terrestrial poikilotherms from 25 taxa exceed, in linear body size, the largest representatives of the same taxa…”
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The equations of motion for moist atmospheric air by Makarieva, Anastassia M., Gorshkov, Victor G., Nefiodov, Andrei V., Sheil, Douglas, Nobre, Antonio Donato, Bunyard, Peter, Nobre, Paulo, Li, Bai‐Lian

“…How phase transitions affect the motion of moist atmospheric air remains controversial. In the early 2000s two distinct differential equations of motion were…”
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Re-calibrating the snake palaeothermometer by Makarieva, Anastassia M, Gorshkov, Victor G, Li, Bai-Lian

“…Arising from: J. J. Head et al. Nature 457, 715-717 (2009); Head et al. replyIn a recent study a new proxy for palaeoclimate reconstructions was proposed on…”
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Comprehending ecological and economic sustainability by Makarieva, Anastassia M., Gorshkov, Victor G., Li, Bai-Lian

“…The global environmental imperative demands urgent actions on ecological stabilization, yet the global scale of such actions is persistently insufficient. This…”
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Comprehending ecological and economic sustainability: comparative analysis of stability principles in the biosphere and free market economy by Makarieva, Anastassia M, Gorshkov, Victor G, Li, Bai-Lian

“…The global environmental imperative demands urgent actions on ecological stabilization, yet the global scale of such actions is persistently insufficient. This…”
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Revising the distributive networks models of West, Brown and Enquist (1997) and Banavar, Maritan and Rinaldo (1999): Metabolic inequity of living tissues provides clues for the observed allometric scaling rules by Makarieva, Anastassia M., Gorshkov, Victor G., Li, Bai-Lian

“…Basic assumptions of two distributive network models designed to explain the 3/4 power scaling between metabolic rate and body mass are re-analysed. It is…”
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A Note on Metabolic Rate Dependence on Body Size in Plants and Animals by MAKARIEVA, ANASTASSIA M., GORSHKOV, VICTOR G., LI, BAI-LIAN

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Why do population density and inverse home range scale differently with body size? Implications for ecosystem stability by Makarieva, Anastassia M, Gorshkov, Victor G, Li, Bai-Lian

“…Population density and home range are the two major ecological characteristics pertaining to the ecosystem-level energy use by the species. Home range usually…”
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