Species Number, Population Density and Body Size Relationships in Natural Communities
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 59 (1), 335-345
- https://doi.org/10.2307/5176
Abstract
(1) Population densities reported in the literature for a large range of species drawn from different communities typically decrease with increased body size. H...This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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