A unifying approach to allometric scaling of resource ingestion rates under limiting conditions

Ecosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Basset, Alberto ^a,b   Cozzoli, Francesco ^a   Paparella, Francesco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body size; Holling's functional response; Individual based resource perception; Kleiber's law; Metabolic theory; Resource availability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991210489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES11-00249.1     Document Type: Article

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