Damuth's Law
The model recovers Damuth's law for mammalian herbivore densities. For larger mammals, the model predicts density scaling near body mass to the -0.82 power, slightly steeper than the empirical -0.77 Damuth slope. The predicted density-body…
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The model recovers Damuth's law for mammalian herbivore densities. For larger mammals, the model predicts density scaling near body mass to the -0.82 power, slightly steeper than the empirical -0.77 Damuth slope. The predicted density-body mass curve closely matches empirical mammalian herbivore densities but is slightly elevated under grass-like resource assumptions. Variation in plant growth and carrying capacity explains much of the empirical spread around the density-body mass relationship.