Gigantism, temperature and metabolic rate in terrestrial poikilotherms

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1578, 2005, Pages 2325-2328

  Makarieva, Anastassia M ^a,b   Gorshkov, Victor G ^a   Li, Bai Lian ^b  

^a PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Great Britain; Mass specific metabolic rate; Temperature; Terrestrial poikilotherms; Wrangel Island

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; METABOLISM; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GIGANTISM; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; POIKILOTHERM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 27244443694     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3223     Document Type: Article

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