Demystifying the West, Brown & Enquist model of the allometry of metabolism

Functional Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 394-399

  Etienne, Rampal S ^a   Apol, M Emile F ^a   Olff, Han ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; Fractal topology; Metabolic theory; Organismal transport network

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; METABOLISM; MODEL TEST; STOICHIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33646592207     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2006.01136.x     Document Type: Review

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