论文说明
声明
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Abstract
摘要
1.INTRODUCTION
1.1.Relationship scaling
1.2.Model system:marine intertidal zone and its environmental gradient
1.3.Barnacles as model organisms
1.4.Questions and hypothesis
2.METHODOLOGY
2.1.Target species
2.2.Study site
2.3.Mass-density relationship of T.squamosa(whole individual)
2.3.1.Field investigation
2.3.2.Statistical analysis
2.4.Mass-density relationships of barnacle parts
2.4.1.Field investigation
2.4.2.Self-thinning exponent
2.4.3.Density and tidal level effects on biomass allocation
2.4.4.Statistical analysis
3.RESULTS
3.1.Biomass-density relationship in whole individual
3.2.Biomass-density relationship in barnacle individual parts
4.DISCUSSION
4.1.Self-thinning exponent steeper than-3/2 and doesn’t change with tidal levels
4.2.Self-thinning exponent changes with individual parts and tidal levels
5.CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
7.APPENDIX