Peters, R. H. (1983).The Ecological Implications of
Body Size. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Savage, V. M., Gillooly, J. F., Brown, J. H., West,
G. B. & Charnov, E. L. (2004). Effects of body
size and temperature on population growth.
American Naturalist, 163 , E429–E441.
Sheldon, R. W. & Kerr, S. R. (1972). The
population density of monsters in Loch
Ness.Limnology and Oceanography, 17 ,
796–798.
Sheldon, R. W. & Kerr, S. R. (1973). The Loch Ness
Monster: reply to comments of C. H.
Mortimer.Limnology and Oceanography, 18 ,
345–346.
Sheldon, R. W., Prakash, A. & Sutcliffe, W. H.
(1972). The size distribution of particles in
the ocean.Limnology and Oceanography, 17 ,
327–340.
Sheldon, R. W., Sutcliffe, W. H. & Paranjape,
M. A. (1977). Structure of pelagic food-chain
and relationship between plankton
and fish production.Journal of the
Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 34 ,
2344–2353.
Tilman, D., Reich, P. B., Knops, J.et al. (2001).
Diversity and productivity in a long-term
grassland experiment.Science, 294 ,
843–845.
Weatherby, A. J., Warren, P. H. & Law, R.
(1998). Coexistence and collapse:
an experimental investigation of the
persistent communities of a protist
species pool.Journal of Animal Ecology, 67 ,
554–566.
West, G. B., Brown, J. H. & Enquist, B. J. (1997). A
general model for the origin of allometric
scaling laws in biology.Science, 276 ,
122–126.
Wetzel, R. G. & Likens, G. E. (1991).Limnological
Analyses, 2nd edn. New York:
Springer-Verlag.CONSEQUENCES OF BODY SIZE IN MODEL MICROBIAL ECOSYSTEMS 265