Reconsidering the mechanistic basis of the metabolic theory of ecology
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M. P. O’Connor ([email protected]), A. E. Sieg and B. P. Wallace, Dept of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Present address for BPW: Duke Univ. Center for Marine Conservation, Nicholas School for the Environment and Earth Sciences, 135 Duke University Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, NC 28516, USA. S. J. Kemp, S. J. Agosta, F. Hansen and A. E. Dunham, Dept of Biology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 415 S. University Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Present address for SJK: Dept of Biology, Pennsylvania State Univ., Berks Campus, Tulpehocken Rd., Reading, PA 19610, USA. J. N. McNair, Patrick Center for Environmental Research, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
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