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Macroecology

the finding that population density scales with body mass to about the minus three-quarters power, so population energy use is roughly independent of size.

In macroecology, energy equivalence rule refers to the finding that population density scales with body mass to about the minus three-quarters power, so population energy use is roughly independent of size. This meaning comes from Damuth (1981) in Nature.[1]

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References

Damuth, J. (1981). Population density and body size in mammals. Nature, 290(5808), 699-700. https://doi.org/10.1038/290699a0

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