On the scaling of habitat specificity with body size

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2932-2938

  Ziv, Y ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Allometry; Body size and habitat specificity; Demand supply function; Energy; Habitat; Logistic equation; Macroecology; Range abundance distribution; Scaling; Species habitat match

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; POPULATION GROWTH;

EID: 0033786647     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[2932:OTSOHS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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