A brief review on allometric scaling in biology

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3314, Issue , 2004, Pages 652-658

  He, Ji Huan ^a  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRIC SCALING; METABOLIC RATES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGY;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 17844362346     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30497-5_102     Document Type: Article

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