Nutritional ecology of dimorphic herbivores: Digestion and passage rates in Nubian ibex

Oecologia

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 170-178

  Gross, John E ^a,c   Alkon, Philip U ^b   Demment, Montague W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Body size; Digestion; Herbivore; Retention time

Indexed keywords

NUBIAN IBEX; CAPRA IBEX NUBIANA;

DIGESTION; NUBIAN IBEX;

EID: 0029662686     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00327900     Document Type: Article

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