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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Jarman-Bell Principle: As herbivore species get bigger in size, they tend to eat less nutritious food, but more of it, thanks to increased gut efficiency.
- Klieber’s Law: As an animal gets bigger, it needs less energy per unit mass. (Specifically, an animal's basal metabolic rate scales to the 3/4 power of the animal's mass.)
- Phytoplankton: A diverse group of small organisms that float on water and photosynthesize.
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