An explanation of the relationships between mass, metabolic rate and characteristic skeletal length for birds and mammals
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Theoretical Biology
- Vol. 109 (3) , 331-371
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5193(84)80086-7
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