Patterns in body mass distributions: sifting among alternative hypotheses
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Patterns in body mass distributions: sifting among alternative hypotheses.
Understanding how animals interact with their environment is critical for evaluating, mitigating and coping with anthropogenic alteration of Earth's biosphere. Researchers have attempted to understand some aspects of these interactions by examining patterns in animal body mass distributions. Energetic, phylogenetic, biogeographical, textural discontinuity and community interaction hypotheses ha...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ecology Letters
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1461-023X,1461-0248
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00902.x