Abundance-body size relationships: The roles of metabolism and population dynamics

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1056-1062

  Lewis, Hannah M ^a   Law, Richard ^a   McKane, Alan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance mass scaling; Energetic equivalence rule; Linear biomass hypothesis; Metabolic theory

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD CHAIN; METABOLISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 49649085250     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01405.x     Document Type: Article

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