Spatial scaling of allometry for terrestrial, mammalian carnivores

Oecologia

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 588-594

  Smallwood, K Shawn ^a,c   Jones, Geoff ^b   Schonewald, Christine ^b  

^a Inst for Sustainable Development   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Carnivora; Density; Ecology; Scale

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029801416     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00333952     Document Type: Article

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