Revisiting the evolutionary origin of allometric metabolic scaling in biology

Functional Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1070-1080

  Apol, M Emile F ^a   Etienne, Rampal S ^a   Olff, Han ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allometry; Metabolism; Optimization; Pulsatile flow; Transport network

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; METABOLISM; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 55349145941     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01458.x     Document Type: Article

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