The scaling of animal space use

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5694, 2004, Pages 266-268

  Jetz, Walter ^a,b,d   Carbone, Chris ^c   Fulford, Jenny ^c   Brown, James H ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ANIMALS; MAMMALS; POPULATION DENSITY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

BODY SIZE; HOME RANGE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPACE USE;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; ENERGY RESOURCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MAMMALS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSICS; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 5044239901     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1102138     Document Type: Article

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