The allometry of growth and reproduction
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Author
Publication
1989 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], England
Language
English
Word Count
45,500 words, Guess
Page Count
182 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2049599M
- ISBN-100521360919
- OCLC Control Number18949186
- Library of Congress Control Number88027120
- LibraryThing228820
Classifications
- DDC599/.03
- LCCQP84 .R38 1989
Description
The technique of allometry investigates the effects of size on such variables as food intake, energy requirements, growth rates and age at first reproduction. This book brings together much of what is known about the consequences of size and provides a new and mathematically rigorous framework within which many quantitative predictions are made and tested using published and unpublished data. Both an animal's energy assimilation and its metabolic requirements are strongly related to body weight. Care has been taken to give verbal presentations of all the mathematical conclusions to ensure that the text is widely intelligible. The book will prove of interest to all those involved in evolutionary biology, ecology and the physiology of whole organisms.
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