Galileo wrote that “nature cannot produce a horse as large as twenty ordinary horses or a giant ten times taller than an ordinary man unless by miracle or by

Several books have been published on scaling in biology and its ramifications in the animal kingdom. However, none has specifically examined the multifaceted ef

Describes in detail how the physical size of an organism affects its biology. Presents the largest single compilation of inter-specific size relations and instr

Ecologists have long struggled to predict features of ecological systems, such as the numbers and diversity of organisms. The wide range of body sizes in ecolog

There is a growing interest in the biological implications of body size in animals. This parameter is now being used to make inferences and predictions about no