The scale-dependence of population density-body mass allometry: Statistical artefact or biological mechanism?

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 115-124

  Hayward, April ^a   Kolasa, Jurek ^a   Stone, Jonathon R ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Broken stick; Energetic equivalence rule (EER); Macroecology; Mass dependence; Metabolic theory of ecology; Metabolism; Niche preemption; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049110536     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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