Does metabolic theory apply to community ecology? It's a matter of scale

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1797-1799

  Tilman, David ^a   HilleRisLambers, Janneke ^a   Harpole, Stan ^a   Dybzinski, Ray ^a   Fargione, Joe ^a   Clark, Chris ^a   Lehman, Clarence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; METABOLISM; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 4444364138     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0725     Document Type: Review

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