Optimal Body Size and Resource Density
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Sigfrid Lundberg; Lennart Persson
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Article
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1993
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A qualitative theory of the evolution of body size in relation to resource density is developed. Two characteristics of an organism are identified as being size limiting. The first is foraging capacity and the second the ingestion and food-processing capacity. A condition is derived showing that opt