The allometry of territory size and metabolic rate as predictors of self-thinning in young-of-the-year Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Self-thinning is a progressive decline in population density caused by competitively induced losses in a cohort of growing individuals and is frequently depicted as: $\log\sb{10}$ (density) = $\rm c -\beta\log\sb{10}$ (body mass). In mobile animals, two self-thinning mechanisms have been proposed. T