Testing metabolic scaling theory using intraspecific allometries in Antarctic microarthropods

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 935-945

  Caruso, Tancredi ^a   Garlaschelli, Diego ^a   Bargagli, Roberto ^a   Convey, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ALLOMETRY; ARTHROPOD; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; METABOLISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTHROPODA; COLLEMBOLA; MESOSTIGMATA; ORIBATIDA; PROSTIGMATA;

EID: 77953575226     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17915.x     Document Type: Article

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