A manipulative test of competing theories for metabolic scaling

American Naturalist

Volumn 178, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 746-754

  White, Craig R ^a   Kearney, Michael R ^b   Matthews, Philip G D ^a   Kooijman, Sebastiaan A L M ^c   Marshall, Dustin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allometry; Dynamic energy budget; Metabolic rate; Metabolic theory of ecology

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BODY MASS; BRYOZOAN; CORRELATION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ENERGY BUDGET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; MATURATION; METABOLISM; ONTOGENY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; BRYOZOA; ENERGY METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; BRYOZOA; ENERGY METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUEENSLAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BRYOZOA;

EID: 81355153389     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/662666     Document Type: Article

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