Of Predators, Prey, and Power Laws
- 22 March 2002
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 295 (5563) , 2229-2230
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1070587
Abstract
Power laws are used by biologists to express how physiological, ecological, and life-history attributes relate to body size in animals (scaling or allometric relationships). In his Perspective, Marquet discusses new data (Carbone and Gittleman) that explain the anomalous nature of the power law for carnivore population density and body size.Keywords
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