No foundation of a "3/4 power scaling law" for respiration in biology

Ecology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 71-73

  Riisgård, Hans Ulrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; b values; Coupling between respiration and growth; Energetic cost of growth; Metabolic rate; Oxygen consumption; Specific dynamic action

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001823764     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00020.x     Document Type: Article

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