Allometric exponents support A 3/4-power scaling law

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2083-2087

  Farrell Gray, Catherine C ^a   Gotelli, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometric exponent; Allometric scaling; Basal metabolic rate; Body mass; Least squares regression; Likelihood; Measurement error; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY MASS; METABOLISM; POWER LAW;

AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 23644451199     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1618     Document Type: Article

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