Body Size

Known as: Sizes, Body, Body Sizes, Size, Body 
The physical measurements of a body.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Bee foraging ranges and their relationship to body size
Bees are the most important pollinator taxon; therefore, understanding the scale at which they forage has important ecological… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Body size in ecological networks.
Body size determines a host of species traits that can affect the structure and dynamics of food webs, and other ecological… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Toward a Metabolic Theory of Ecology
Metabolism provides a basis for using first principles of physics, chemistry, and biology to link the biology of individual… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Testing for phylogenetic signal in comparative data: behavioral traits are more labile.
The primary rationale for the use of phylogenetically based statistical methods is that phylogenetic signal, the tendency for… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Relationship of Genetic Variation to Population Size in Wildlife
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Genetic diversity is one of three levels o f biological diversity requiring conservation. Genetic theory predicts that levels o f… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Increased blood glucose and insulin, body size, and incident colorectal cancer.
BACKGROUND Abdominal obesity--an elevated level of visceral adipose tissue--has been linked to colorectal cancer. Furthermore… (More)
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Vocal tract length and formant frequency dispersion correlate with body size in rhesus macaques.
Body weight, length, and vocal tract length were measured for 23 rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) of various sizes using… (More)
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Prostate cancer in relation to diet, physical activity, and body size in blacks, whites, and Asians in the United States and Canada.
BACKGROUND International and interethnic differences in prostate cancer incidence suggest an environmental, potentially… (More)
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Left ventricular mass and body size in normotensive children and adults: assessment of allometric relations and impact of overweight.
OBJECTIVES This study was designed to determine the most appropriate method to normalize left ventricular mass for body size… (More)
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Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Population density and body size in mammals
There seems to be an inverse relationship between the size of an animal species and its local abundance. Here I describe the… (More)
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