Testing models of biological scaling with mammalian population densities

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 844-851

  Dobson, F Stephen ^a   Zinner, Bertram ^a   Silva, Marina ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FRACTALS; METABOLISM; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SCALING EXPONENTS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

BODY SIZE; MAMMAL; MODELING; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0041569925     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z03-060     Document Type: Article

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