Allometric scaling of rate, age and density parameters in ecological models

Oikos

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 293-310

  Hendriks, A Jan ^a  

^a INST INLAND WATER MGMT WASTE W   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LITERATURE REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULAR ORGANISMS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032840491     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546447     Document Type: Article

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