Dimensional approaches to scaling experimental ecosystems: Designing mousetraps to catch elephants

American Naturalist

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 324-333

  Petersen, J E ^a   Hastings, A ^a  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic similarity; Extrapolation; Mesocosm; Nondimensional; Scale

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MESOCOSM; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 0035093407     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/319197     Document Type: Article

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