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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 December 2009
      25 May 1989
      ISBN:
      9780511608483
      9780521360913
      9780521423588
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511608483
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.418kg, 200 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.296kg, 200 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Ecology and Conservation, Zoology
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    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mathematically rigorous framework within which many quantitative predictions are made and tested using published and unpublished data. Explanations are proposed for many previously unexplained phenomena such as why in some species females are thousands of times heavier than males, whereas in no species are males more than about eight times heavier than females. The models presented afford a synthesis of the effects of size and open up pathways for further theoretical investigation and experimental testing. Care has been taken to give verbal presentations of all the mathematical conclusions to ensure that the text is widely intelligible.

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