How Large Should Whales Be?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Clauset, Aaron ^a,b,c  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CETACEA; EVOLUTION; HABITAT; HEAT LOSS; MACROEVOLUTIONARY TRADEOFF THEORY; NONHUMAN; PELAGIC SPECIES; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; THERMODYNAMICS; WHALE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WHALES;

BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; CETACEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84872245864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053967     Document Type: Article

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