Body size and metabolic rate

DOI10.1152/PHYSREV.1947.27.4.511MaRDI QIDQ5374087zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Max Kleiber

Publication date 6 April 2018

Published in Physiological Reviews (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1152/physrev.1947.27.4.511

zbMATH Keywords

allometric law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40) Physiology (general) (92C30)

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