Publications

1740 Total Citations (using google scholar)

19 biology research papers; 4 Responses to or comments on published biology papers;

1 biology book chapter; 1 biology book review; 8 theoretical physics papers

Biology Papers:

1. J.P. O'Dwyer, J.K. Lake, A. Ostling, V. Savage, and J.L. Green, (2009) An Integrative 

          Framework for Stochastic, Size-Structured Community Assembly, Proceedings of the

          National Academy of Sciences, USA, in press.

2. V. M. Savage*, E. J. Deeds*, and W. Fontana, (2008) Sizing up allometric scaling theory,

         Public Library of Science: Computational Biology, 4(9), e1000171.

         *denotes equal contribution

3. V. M. Savage, C. T. Webb, and J. Norberg, (2007) A trait-based framework for studying the

    effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning, Journal of Theoretical Biology  247,

    213-229. 1 citation         

4. A. P. Allen and V. M. Savage, Setting the absolute tempo of biodiversity dynamics (2007)

          Ecology Letters 10, 637-646. 2 citations

5. C.A. Price, B.J. Enquist, and V.M. Savage, Scaling the diversity of botanical form and

function, (2007) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 104(32),

13204-13209. 9 citations             

6. V. M. Savage and G. B. West, Towards a quantitative, metabolic theory of mammalian

          sleep, (2007) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA,  104(3), 1051-1056.

          7 citations           

7. V. M. Savage, A.P. Allen, J. F. Gillooly, A. B. Herman, J. H. Brown, and G. B. West, (2007)

          Scaling of number, size, and metabolic rate of cells with body size in mammals,

          Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 104(11), 4718-4723. 11 citations

8. V.M. Savage, B.J. Enquist, and G.B. West, Comment on Chaui-Berlinck, (2007) Journal of

          Experimental Biology, 210(21), 3873-3874. 3 citations

9. V. M. Savage, E. P. White, M. E. Moses, S. K. M. Ernest, B. J. Enquist, E. L. Charnov  

          (2006) Comment on, "The illusion of invariant quantities in life histories", Science 312, 

          198b. 11 citations

10. A.P. Allen, J. F. Gillooly, V. M. Savage, J. H. Brown, (2006). Kinetic effects of temperature  

    on rates of genetic divergence and speciation, Proceedings of the National Academy of

    Sciences, USA, 103, 9130-9135. 56 citations

11. V. M. Savage and G. B. West (2006). Biological scaling and physiological time: 

          Biomedical applications. Complex System Science in Biomedicine. Ed. T. S. Deisboeck

          and J. Y. Kresh, New York, Kluwer Academic.

12. J. F. Gillooly, A. P. Allen, V. M. Savage, E. L. Charnov, G. B. West J. H. Brown (2006).

          Response to Clarke and Fraser: effects of temperature on metabolic rate, Functional      

          Ecology 20, 400-404.  19 citations

13. J. E. Cohen, T. Jonsson, C. B. Muller, H. C. J. Godfray, and V. M. Savage, (2005). Body  

          sizes of hosts and parasitoids in individual feeding relationships, Proceedings of the 

          National Academy of Sciences, USA 102(3), 684-689. 15 citations

14.  J. F. Gillooly, A. P. Allen, J. H. Brown, J. J. Elser, C. Martinez del Rio, V. M. Savage, G. B.  

          West, W. H. Woodruff, and A. Woods. (2005). The Metabolic Basis of Whole-Organism  

          RNA and Phosphorus Content, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA  

          102, 11923-11927. 19 citations

15. V. M. Savage, J. F. Gillooly, J. H. Brown, G. B. West, and E. L. Charnov, (2004). Effects of  

          body size and temperature on population growth, The American Naturalist 163(3), 429-        

          441. 105 citations

16. V. M. Savage (2004). Improved approximations to scaling relationships for species,

         populations,  and ecosystems across latitudinal and elevational gradients. Journal of

         Theoretical Biology 227(4), 525-534. 18 citations

17. V. M. Savage, J. F. Gillooly, W. H. Woodruff, G. B. West, A. P. Allen, B. J. Enquist, and J.

         H. Brown (2004). The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology. Functional

         Ecology 18(2), 257-282. 143 citations

18. J. H. Brown, J. F. Gillooly, A. P. Allen, V. M. Savage, and G. B. West. (2004) Toward a   

          metabolic theory of ecology (MacArthur award paper), Ecology 85(7), 1771-1789.

         452 citations

19. V. M. Savage (2003). Is biology just chemistry?: Book review of "Ecological

          Stoichiometry: The Biology of Elements from Molecules to the Biosphere" by Robert W.

          Sterner and James J. Elser. Complexity 8(6), 42-44.

20. S. K. M. Ernest, B. J. Enquist, J.H. Brown, E. L. Charnov, J. F. Gillooly, V. M. Savage, E. P.

         White, F. A. Smith, E. A. Hadly, J. P. Haskell, S. K. Lyons, B. A. Maurer, K. J. Niklas & B.

         Tiffney (2003) Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and  

         population energy use. Ecology Letters 6, 990-995. 57 citations

21. J. Jun, J. W. Pepper, V. M. Savage, J. F. Gillooly, and J. H. Brown.  (2003). Allometric 

         scaling in centrally foraging ant colonies, Evolutionary Ecology Research 5(2), 297-303.

         12 citations

22. G. B. West, V. M. Savage, J. Gillooly, B. J. Enquist, W. H. Woodruff, and J. H. Brown. 

        (2003). But why does metabolic rate scale with body size? Brief Communication. Nature,

        421, 713-714. 45 citations     

23. J. F. Gillooly, E. L. Charnov, G. B. West, V. M. Savage, and J. H. Brown (2002).            

         Effects of size and temperature on developmental time, Nature 417, 70-73. 176 citations

24. J. F. Gillooly, J. H. Brown, G. B. West, V. M. Savage, and E. L. Charnov (2001). Effects of

         size and temperature on metabolic rate, Science 293, 2248-2251. 376 citations

Biology Papers in Review:

25. A. B. Herman, V. M. Savage, and G. B. West, A quantitative theory for tumor growth and

          vascularization, to be submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.

Physics Papers:

     Note: In particle physics authors are listed alphabetically, not by order of importance or

     contribution.

 26. C. W. Bernard and V. M. Savage (2003). PT –symmetric quantum field theories and         

          the Langevin equation. Czech Journal of Physics, 54, 109-118.

 27. F. Cooper and V. M. Savage (2002). Dynamics of the chiral phase transition in the 2+1  

          dimensional Gross-Neveu model, Physics Letters B 545, 307-314. 5 citations

 28. C. W. Bernard and V. M. Savage (2001). Numerical simulations of PT-symmetric

          quantum field theories, Physical Review D 64, 085010. 22 citations

 29. C. M. Bender, M. V. Berry, P. N. Meisinger, V. M. Savage, and M. Simsek (2001).

          Complex WKB analysis of energy-level degeneracies of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians,

          Journal of Physics A Letters 34, L31-L36. 15 citations

 30. C. M. Bender, K. A. Milton, and V. M. Savage (2000). Solution of Schwinger-Dyson

         equations for PT-symmetric quantum field theories, Physical Review D 62, 085001.

         55 citations

 31. C. M. Bender, S. Boetcher, and V. M. Savage (2000). Conjecture on the interlacing of zeros 

          in complex Sturm-Liouville problems, Journal of Mathematical Physics 41, 6381-6387.

          59 citations

 32. C. M. Bender, S. Boetcher, H. F. Jones, and V. M. Savage (1999). Complex square well—a

          new exactly solvable quantum mechanical model, Journal of Physics A 32, 6771-6781.

          27 citations

 33. C. M. Bender, F. Cooper, P. N. Meisinger, and V. M. Savage (1999). Variational ansatz for