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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Main Authors: Fabio Leonardo Meza-Joya, Mary Morgan-Richards, Steven A. Trewick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2022-06-01
Series:Journal of Orthoptera Research
Online Access:https://jor.pensoft.net/article/79819/download/pdf/