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... Body size is an- other case . Size is one of the most pervasive mathematical factors in biology , one of the most intuitively accessible , and one of the most commonly ignored because we take the perspective of our own body size for ...
... Body size is an- other case . Size is one of the most pervasive mathematical factors in biology , one of the most intuitively accessible , and one of the most commonly ignored because we take the perspective of our own body size for ...
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... body size than fruit eaters . Given that basal metabolism only increases as the three quarter power of body weight , they do not need much more energy to support a large body , and given a large body , they can ferment coarse browse for ...
... body size than fruit eaters . Given that basal metabolism only increases as the three quarter power of body weight , they do not need much more energy to support a large body , and given a large body , they can ferment coarse browse for ...
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... body weight of females during gestation plotted against mean body weight of adult females . Species producing precocial young invest less in growth per day per unit body weight than do those species bearing altricial young . ( After ...
... body weight of females during gestation plotted against mean body weight of adult females . Species producing precocial young invest less in growth per day per unit body weight than do those species bearing altricial young . ( After ...
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WHAT WHERE | 3 |
ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES | 34 |
FOOD AND FEEDING | 45 |
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