Trophic level scales positively with body size in fishes

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 231-240

  Romanuk, Tamara N ^a   Hayward, April ^a   Hutchings, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allometry; Body mass; Fish; FishBase; Gape limitation; Metabolic theory of ecology; Scaling; Size classes

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; FISH; FOOD WEB; GAPE LIMITATION; MORPHOLOGY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

PISCES;

EID: 79551539837     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00579.x     Document Type: Article

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