title: Production, reproduction and size in mammals.
abstract: It is argued that birth rate, turnover rate and production/biomass ratios (P/B) are equivalent in stable populations. It is then shown from field data on 21 mammal species that production scales as a 2/3 power of body mass, suggesting that size rather than life history characteristics explain most interspecific variation. The relationship simolifies calculations of annual production in populations and energy flow through communities.
authors.affiliation: New York Zoological Society, University of Nairobi, POB 48177, Nairobi, Kenya.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Western