Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The scaling of average daily metabolic rate and energy intake
- 3 Why do larger species invest relatively less in their offspring?
- 4 The intraspecific relationship of parental investment to female body weight
- 5 Growth and productivity
- 6 Quantitative models of body size
- 7 Sexual dimorphism in body size
- 8 Are larger species more dimorphic in body size?
- 9 Surface area/volume arguments in biology
- 10 Prospectus
- Glossary of mathematical terms
- References
- Index
4 - The intraspecific relationship of parental investment to female body weight
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The scaling of average daily metabolic rate and energy intake
- 3 Why do larger species invest relatively less in their offspring?
- 4 The intraspecific relationship of parental investment to female body weight
- 5 Growth and productivity
- 6 Quantitative models of body size
- 7 Sexual dimorphism in body size
- 8 Are larger species more dimorphic in body size?
- 9 Surface area/volume arguments in biology
- 10 Prospectus
- Glossary of mathematical terms
- References
- Index
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- The Allometry of Growth and Reproduction , pp. 31 - 38Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989