Length and biomass data for Atlantic and Pacific seaweeds from both hemispheres

• Autores: Scrosati, Ricardo Augusto; MacDonald, Heather L.; Córdova, César A.; Casas, Graciela Noemi
• Año de publicación: 2020
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: ALGAE; ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; INTERTIDAL; LENGTH; SEAWEED
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

As the length of an organism is a unidimensional measure but its biomass is distributed across three dimensions, length and biomass are allometrically related in plants and animals. Due to the high interspecific morphological variation in nature (e.g., long, thin, and narrow flatworms vs. short and globose snails), the biomass–length relationship differs among species. Interest in the principles governing biomass–length allometry has sparked research about the drivers of biological form (West et al., 1999; Niklas and Enquist, 2001; Makarieva et al., 2005; Kleyer et al., 2019). Biomass–length allometry can ultimately be of practical value, such as for the non-destructive estimation of stand biomass (Scrosati, 2006a; Yuen et al., 2016) and productivity (Martin et al., 2014), the determination of body condition (Brodeur et al., 2020), or the unintrusive estimation of body mass (Turnbull et al., 2014; Coulis and Joly, 2017; Sohlström et al., 2018), which is in turn allometrically related to various biological processes (Brown et al., 2004; Marquet et al., 2005).
Fil: Scrosati, Ricardo Augusto. Saint Francis Xavier University; Canadá
Fil: MacDonald, Heather L.. Saint Francis Xavier University; Canadá
Fil: Córdova, César A.. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Perú
Fil: Casas, Graciela Noemi. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Centro Nacional Patagónico. Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos; Argentina