Do Bertalanffy's growth curves result from optimal resource allocation?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-7

  Czarnołeski, Marcin ^a   Kozłowski, Jan ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bertalanffys equation; Growth curves; Indeterminate growth; Life history evolution; Optimal resource allocation; Optimization models; Reproduction; Seasonality; Trade off

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002309749     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.0007b.x     Document Type: Article

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