Understanding how animals interact with their environment is critical for evaluating,
mitigating and coping with anthropogenic alteration of Earth's biosphere. Researchers have …

It is generally recognized that larger animals eat more, live longer, have larger offspring, and
so on; but it is unusual to see these commonplace observations as a basis for scientific …

Body size is perhaps the most fundamental property of an organism and is related to many
biological traits, including abundance. The relationship between abundance and body size …

1. Despite a wealth of studies for a wide variety of animal assemblages, the form of the
interspecific relationship between abundance and body size is still contentious. At least …

On average, large-bodied species live at lower densities than small-bodied ones. Early
studies suggested that population densities might scale so that the energy use of a …

B ody size is probably the single attribute of animal species most studied in the ecological
and evolutionary literatures, and with good reason. Most life history traits of an animal …

1. Metabolic constraints are the usual explanation for the relationship between body size
and species abundance in natural assemblages of animals. In some assemblages …

Recent compilations of large‐scale data bases on the geographical distributions and body
sizes of animals, coupled with developments in spatial statistics, have led to renewed …

The shape of the frequency distribution of animal body sizes has elicited considerable
interest in recent years (Dial and Marzluff 1988, May 1988, Brown and Maurer 1989, Maurer …

I examine the suggestion of Holling (1992) that distributions of body sizes for animals show
clumps corresponding to basic biotic and abiotic processes operating at different scales in …