The Ecological Implications of Body Size
It is generally recognized that larger animals eat more, live longer, have larger offspring, and so on; but it is unusual to see these commonplace observations as a basis for scientific biology. A large number of empirically based relationships describe biological rates as simple functions of body size; and other such relations predict the intrinsic rate of population growth, animal speed, animal density, territory size, prey size, physiology, and morphology. Such equations almost always exist for mammals and birds, often for other vertebrates and invertebrates, sometimes for protozoa, algae, and bacteria, and occasionally even for plants. Th…
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- ISBN: 978-0-521-28886-6
- EAN: 9780521288866
- Produktnummer: 9837701
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1983
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 529 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 529
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