Evolution of body size in food webs: Does the energetic equivalence rule hold?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-178

  Loeuille, Nicolas ^a   Loreau, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Body size; Coevolution; Energetic equivalence rule; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COEVOLUTION; ENERGETICS; EVOLUTION; FOOD WEB; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 33644932807     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00861.x     Document Type: Article

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