Test of a reactor-based digestion optimization model for nectar-eating rainbow lorikeets

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 117-138

  Karasov, William H ^a   Cork, Steven J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

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TRICHOGLOSSUS HAEMATODUS;

EID: 0030061971     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/physzool.69.1.30164203     Document Type: Article

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