| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 343 pages) : illustrations, charts. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Ecological reviews
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Ecological reviews.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Metabolic theory of ecology and the role of body size in marine and freshwater ecosystems / James H. Brown, Andrew P. Allen and James F. Gillooly -- Body size and suspension feeding / Stuart Humphries -- Life histories and body size / David Atkinson and Andrew G. Hirst -- Relationship between biomass turnover and body size for stream communities / Alexander D. Huryn and Arthur C. Benke -- Body size in streams : macroinvertebrate community size composition along natural and human-induced environmental gradients / Colin R. Townsend and Ross M. Thompson -- Body size and predatory interactions in fresh waters : scaling from individuals to communities / Guy Woodward and Philip Warren -- Body size and trophic cascades in lakes / J. Iwan Jones and Erik Jeppesen -- Body size and scale invariance : multifractals in invertebrate communities / Peter E. Schmid and Jenny M. Schmid-Araya -- Body size and biogeography / B.J. Finlay and G.F. Esteban -- By wind, wings or water : body size, dispersal and range size in aquatic invertebrates / Simon D. Rundle, David T. Bilton and Andrew Foggo -- Body size and diversity in marine systems / Richard M. Warwick -- Interplay between individual growth and population feedbacks shapes body-size distributions / Lennart Persson and André M. De Roos -- Consequences of body-size in model microbial ecosystems / Owen L. Petchey, Zachary T. Long and Peter J. Morin -- Body size, exploitation and conservation of marine organisms / Simon Jennings and John D. Reynolds -- How body size mediates the role of animals in nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystems / Robert O. Hall, Jr. [and others] -- Body sizes in food chains of animal predators and parasites / Joel E. Cohen -- Body size in aquatic ecology : important, but not the whole story / Alan G. Hildrew, David G. Raffaelli and Ronni Edmonds-Brown. |
| Summary |
An authoritative work written by leading experts unravelling the fundamental role of body size. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Aquatic animals -- Size.
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Aquatic animals. |
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Aquatic ecology.
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Aquatic ecology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hildrew, A. G.
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Raffaelli, D. G. (Dave G.)
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Edmonds-Brown, Ronni.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Body size. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521861724 (DLC) 2007282027 (OCoLC)86168743 |
| ISBN |
9780511296628 (electronic book) |
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0511296622 (electronic book) |
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0511292686 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511292682 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511295871 (electronic book) |
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9780511295874 (electronic book) |
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051129428X (electronic book) |
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9780511294280 (electronic book) |
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9780511295089 |
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0511295081 |
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0521679672 (Paper) |
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0521861721 (Cloth) |
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9780521861724 (hardback) |
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9780521679671 (paperback) |
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