Population energy use scales positively with body size in natural aquatic microcosms

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 553-562

  Hayward, April ^a,b   Khalid, Maaheen ^a   Kolasa, Jurek ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allometry; Energetic equivalence rule; Jamaica; Metabolic theory of ecology; Metabolism; Microcosms; Population density

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ENERGY USE; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; MICROCOSM; POPULATION DENSITY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DISCOVERY BAY; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 68549092778     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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