Does consumption rate scale superlinearly?

Nature

Volumn 494, Issue 7435, 2013, Pages

  Giacomini, Henrique C ^a   Shuter, Brian J ^a,b   De Kerckhove, Derrick T ^a   Abrams, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; LINEARITY; METABOLISM; PREDICTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY SIZE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD WEB; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84873667747     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11886     Document Type: Article

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