Metabolic rate opens a grand vista on ecology

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1805-1807

  Cottingham, Kathryn L ^a   Zens, M Scot ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

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ECOLOGICAL THEORY; METABOLISM;

EID: 4444378123     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0688     Document Type: Review

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