Why are species’ body size distributions usually skewed to the right?
Open Access
- 1 August 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Functional Ecology
- Vol. 16 (4), 419-432
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2435.2002.00646.x
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