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Systematic variation in the temperature dependence of physiological and ecological traits by Dell, Anthony I, Pawar, Samraat, Savage, Van M

“…To understand the effects of temperature on biological systems, we compile, organize, and analyze a database of 1,072 thermal responses for microbes, plants,…”
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Temperature dependence of trophic interactions are driven by asymmetry of species responses and foraging strategy by Dell, Anthony I., Pawar, Samraat, Savage, Van M.

“…1. Environmental temperature has systematic effects on rates of species interactions, primarily through its influence on organismal physiology. 2. We present a…”
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A Framework for Elucidating the Temperature Dependence of Fitness by Amarasekare, Priyanga, Savage, Van

“…Climate warming is predicted to cause large-scale extinctions, particularly of ectothermic species. A striking difference between tropical and temperate…”
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Dimensionality of consumer search space drives trophic interaction strengths by Pawar, Samraat, Dell, Anthony I., Van M. Savage

“…Trophic interactions govern biomass fluxes in ecosystems, and stability in food webs. Knowledge of how trophic interaction strengths are affected by…”
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Curvature in metabolic scaling by Fontana, Walter, Kolokotrones, Tom, Van Savage, Deeds, Eric J

“…For more than three-quarters of a century it has been assumed that basal metabolic rate increases as body mass raised to some power p. However, there is no…”
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Multilevel relations among plankton stitched together with an eco-evolutionary needle by Savage, Van M

“…Power-law relationships between population abundances, energy use, and other factors are often referred to as macroecological scaling. A recent study…”
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A general model for metabolic scaling in self-similar asymmetric networks by Brummer, Alexander Byers, Savage, Van M, Enquist, Brian J

“…How a particular attribute of an organism changes or scales with its body size is known as an allometry. Biological allometries, such as metabolic scaling,…”
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Sizing up allometric scaling theory by Savage, Van M, Deeds, Eric J, Fontana, Walter

“…Metabolic rate, heart rate, lifespan, and many other physiological properties vary with body mass in systematic and interrelated ways. Present empirical data…”
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Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease by Mordecai, Erin A., Caldwell, Jamie M., Grossman, Marissa K., Lippi, Catherine A., Johnson, Leah R., Neira, Marco, Rohr, Jason R., Ryan, Sadie J., Savage, Van, Shocket, Marta S., Sippy, Rachel, Stewart Ibarra, Anna M., Thomas, Matthew B., Villena, Oswaldo, Byers, James (Jeb)

“…Mosquito‐borne diseases cause a major burden of disease worldwide. The vital rates of these ectothermic vectors and parasites respond strongly and nonlinearly…”
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Predicting collapse of complex ecological systems: quantifying the stability-complexity continuum by Pettersson, Susanne, Savage, Van M, Nilsson Jacobi, Martin

“…Dynamical shifts between the extremes of stability and collapse are hallmarks of ecological systems. These shifts are limited by and change with biodiversity,…”
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A quantitative theory of solid tumor growth, metabolic rate and vascularization by Herman, Alexander B, Savage, Van M, West, Geoffrey B

“…The relationships between cellular, structural and dynamical properties of tumors have traditionally been studied separately. Here, we construct a…”
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Climate shapes and shifts functional biodiversity in forests worldwide by Wieczynski, Daniel J., Boyle, Brad, Buzzard, Vanessa, Duran, Sandra M., Henderson, Amanda N., Hulshof, Catherine M., Kerkhoff, Andrew J., McCarthy, Megan C., Michaletz, Sean T., Swenson, Nathan G., Asner, Gregory P., Bentley, Lisa Patrick, Enquist, Brian J., Savage, Van M.

“…Much ecological research aims to explain how climate impacts biodiversity and ecosystem-level processes through functional traits that link environment with…”
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How axon and dendrite branching are guided by time, energy, and spatial constraints by Desai-Chowdhry, Paheli, Brummer, Alexander B., Savage, Van M.

“…Neurons are connected by complex branching processes—axons and dendrites—that process information for organisms to respond to their environment. Classifying…”
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Real versus Artificial Variation in the Thermal Sensitivity of Biological Traits by Pawar, Samraat, Dell, Anthony I., Van M. Savage, Knies, Jennifer L.

“…Whether the thermal sensitivity of an organism’s traits follows the simple Boltzmann-Arrhenius model remains a contentious issue that centers around…”
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Stressor interaction networks suggest antibiotic resistance co-opted from stress responses to temperature by Cruz-Loya, Mauricio, Kang, Tina Manzhu, Lozano, Natalie Ann, Watanabe, Rina, Tekin, Elif, Damoiseaux, Robert, Savage, Van M., Yeh, Pamela J.

“…Environmental factors like temperature, pressure, and pH partly shaped the evolution of life. As life progressed, new stressors (e.g., poisons and antibiotics)…”
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Using a newly introduced framework to measure ecological stressor interactions by Tekin, Elif, Diamant, Eleanor S., Cruz‐Loya, Mauricio, Enriquez, Vivien, Singh, Nina, Savage, Van M., Yeh, Pamela J., Cleland, Elsa

“…Understanding how stressors combine to affect population abundances and trajectories is a fundamental ecological problem with increasingly important…”
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Self-Similar Processes Follow a Power Law in Discrete Logarithmic Space by Newberry, Mitchell G, Savage, Van M

“…Cities, wealth, and earthquakes follow continuous power-law probability distributions such as the Pareto distribution, which are canonically associated with…”
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Do Vascular Networks Branch Optimally or Randomly across Spatial Scales? by Tekin, Elif, Hunt, David, Newberry, Mitchell G, Savage, Van M

“…Modern models that derive allometric relationships between metabolic rate and body mass are based on the architectural design of the cardiovascular system and…”
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Neuronal branching is increasingly asymmetric near synapses, potentially enabling plasticity while minimizing energy dissipation and conduction time by Desai-Chowdhry, Paheli, Brummer, Alexander B, Mallavarapu, Samhita, Savage, Van M

“…Neurons' primary function is to encode and transmit information in the brain and body. The branching architecture of axons and dendrites must compute, respond…”
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Stimuli-sensitive nano-drug delivery with programmable size changes to enhance accumulation of therapeutic agents in tumors by Souri, Mohammad, Kiani Shahvandi, Mohammad, Chiani, Mohsen, Moradi Kashkooli, Farshad, Farhangi, Ali, Mehrabi, Mohammad Reza, Rahmim, Arman, Savage, Van M., Soltani, M.

“…Nano-based drug delivery systems hold significant promise for cancer therapies. Presently, the poor accumulation of drug-carrying nanoparticles in tumors has…”
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