Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
Title
Ecology. Invariants, scaling laws, and ecological complexity.
Authors
Marquet, P A
Abstract
There has been much debate about scaling laws in nature. It is believed that as body size increases the number of individuals in the population decreases. As Marquet explains in his Perspective, an elegant new study in two totally separate stream communities (Schmid et al.) confirms that this scaling law holds across more than 400 species of invertebrates.
Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2000, Vol 289, Issue 5484, p1487