Allometric growth, life-history invariants and population energetics

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 353-360

  Economo, Evan P ^a   Kerkhoff, Andrew J ^b   Enquist, Brian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometric growth; Allometry; Bioenergetics; Efficiency; Life history invariants; Metabolism; Population energetics; Production; Scaling

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BODY SIZE; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; POPULATION MODELING;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 17444365499     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00737.x     Document Type: Review

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