Does consumption rate scale superlinearly?

Nature

Volumn 493, Issue 7434, 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; BODY SIZE; CALORIC INTAKE; CONSUMER; FOOD INTAKE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84873801521     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11829     Document Type: Note

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