Is West, Brown and Enquist's model of allometric scaling mathematically correct and biologically relevant?

Functional Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 283-289

  Kozlowski J ^a   Konarzewski, M ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; GROWTH MODELING; METABOLISM;

EID: 1942486869     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0269-8463.2004.00830.x     Document Type: Review

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