Range size-body size relationships: Evidence of scale dependence

Oikos

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 479-485

  Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Blackburn, Tim M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE; SCALE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0030303776     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545889     Document Type: Article

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