Life-history evolution under a production constraint

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 47, 2006, Pages 17595-17599

  Brown, James H ^a,b   Sibly, Richard M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometry; Life history theory; Metabolic ecology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; LIFE HISTORY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY CONSTRUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 33845219898     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608522103     Document Type: Article

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