Temperature-associated upper limits to body size in terrestrial poikilotherms

Oikos

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 425-436

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; METABOLISM; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AMPHIPODA; GAMMARIDEA;

EID: 29144480320     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2005.14095.x     Document Type: Article

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