What is the matter with the gravity hypothesis?

Functional Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1182-1183

  Brandt, Yoni ^a   Andrade, Maydianne C B ^b  

^a W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; GRAVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOCOMOTION; SIZE EFFECT; SPIDER; VELOCITY;

EID: 36248962186     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01345.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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