Cargando...

A Common Scaling Rule for Abundance, Energetics, and Production of Parasitic and Free-Living Species

The metabolic theory of ecology uses the scaling of metabolism with body size and temperature to explain the causes and consequences of species abundance. However, the theory and its empirical tests have never simultaneously examined parasites alongside free-living species. This is unfortunate becau...

Descrición completa

Gardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Main Authors: Hechinger, Ryan F., Lafferty, Kevin D., Dobson, Andy P., Brown, James H., Kuris, Armand M.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2011
Assuntos:
Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3236646/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21778398
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1204337
Tags: Engadir etiqueta
Sen Etiquetas, Sexa o primeiro en etiquetar este rexistro!