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Gigantism, temperature and metabolic rate in terrestrial poikilotherms

The mechanisms dictating upper limits to animal body size are not well understood. We have analysed body length data for the largest representatives of 24 taxa of terrestrial poikilotherms from tropical, temperate and polar environments. We find that poikilothermic giants on land become two–three ti...

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Hauptverfasser: Makarieva, Anastassia M, Gorshkov, Victor G, Li, Bai-Lian
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: The Royal Society 2005
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560189/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16191647
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3223
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