West, Brown and Enquist's model of allometric scaling again: The same questions remain

Functional Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 739-743

  Kozlowski J ^a   Konarzewski, M ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

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EID: 29144457531     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2005.01021.x     Document Type: Review

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