Fractal geometry predicts varying body size scaling relationships for mammal and bird home ranges

Nature

Volumn 418, Issue 6897, 2002, Pages 527-530

  Haskell, John P ^a   Ritchie, Mark E ^a   Olff, Han ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

SCALING LAWS;

FRACTALS;

BODY SIZE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOME RANGE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOME RANGE; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY CONSTITUTION; ENVIRONMENT; FRACTALS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036682356     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00840     Document Type: Article

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