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res:
  bibo_abstract:
  - Allometric scaling relations are widely used to link biological processes to body
    size in nature. Several studies have shown that such scaling laws hold also for
    natural ecosystems, including individual trees and forests, riverine metabolism,
    and river network organization. However, the derivation of scaling laws for catchment-scale
    water and carbon fluxes has not been achieved so far. Here, we focus on scaling
    relations of catchment green metabolism, defined as the set of ecohydrological
    and biogeochemical processes through which vegetation assemblages in catchments
    maintain their structure and react to the surrounding environment. By revising
    existing plant size–density relationships and integrating them across large-scale
    domains, we show that the ecohydrological fluxes occurring at the catchment scale
    are invariant with respect to the above-ground vegetation biomass per unit area
    of the basin, while they scale linearly with catchment size. We thus demonstrate
    that the sublinear scaling of plant metabolism results in an isometric scaling
    at catchment and regional scales. Deviations from such predictions are further
    shown to collapse onto a common distribution, thus incorporating natural fluctuations
    due to resource limitations into a generalized scaling theory. Results from scaling
    arguments are supported by hyperresolution ecohydrological simulations and remote
    sensing observations.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Francesca
      foaf_name: Bassani, Francesca
      foaf_surname: Bassani
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Simone
      foaf_name: Fatichi, Simone
      foaf_surname: Fatichi
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=cf8e546b-a9b0-11f0-a43b-aa89ed1b56d6
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Andrea
      foaf_name: Rinaldo, Andrea
      foaf_surname: Rinaldo
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Sara
      foaf_name: Bonetti, Sara
      foaf_surname: Bonetti
  bibo_doi: 10.1073/pnas.2410736121
  bibo_issue: '42'
  bibo_volume: 121
  dct_date: 2024^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/0027-8424
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/1091-6490
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: National Academy of Sciences@
  dct_title: 'Toward a metabolic theory of catchments: Scaling of water and carbon
    fluxes with size@'
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