Body Size, Energetics, and Evolution

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2008, Pages 477-482

  Smith, F A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometric; Bergmann s rule; Body mass; Constraints; Cope s rule; Ectothermic endothermic energy; Food acquisition; Island rule; Isometric; Metabolic rate; Resources; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899934888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00776-X     Document Type: Chapter

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