Relationships among body size components of three flightless New Zealand grasshopper species (Orthoptera, Acrididae) and their ecological applications
Body size is perhaps the most fundamental property of an organism and is central to ecology at multiple scales, yet obtaining accurate estimates of ecologically meaningful size metrics, such as body mass, is often impractical. Allometric scaling and mass-to-mass relationships have been used as alter...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2022-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Orthoptera Research |
Online Access: | https://jor.pensoft.net/article/79819/download/pdf/ |