Universal temperature and body-mass scaling of feeding rates

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1605, 2012, Pages 2923-2934

  Rall, Björn C ^a   Brose, Ulrich ^a   Hartvig, Martin ^b,c   Kalinkat, Gregor ^a,d   Schwarzmüller, Florian ^a   Vucic Pestic, Olivera ^d   Petchey, Owen L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; Body size; Functional response; Interaction strength; Metabolic theory; Warming

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GLOBAL WARMING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIZE STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84866598087     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0242     Document Type: Article

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