Prey abundance and predator reproduction: Rats and pythons on a tropical Australian floodplain

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1078-1086

  Shine, Richard ^a   Madsen, Thomas ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Costs of reproduction; Energy limitation; Liasis fuscus, predation; Pythonidae; Rattus colletti; Reptile; Snake

Indexed keywords

LIASIS FUSCUS; PYTHONIDAE; RATTUS COLLETTI; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

DUSKY RAT; FEEDING RATE; PREY ABUNDANCE; REPRODUCTIVE OUTPUT; WATER PYTHON;

AUSTRALIA, NORTHERN TERRITORY, ADELAIDE RIVER;

EID: 0030613833     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[1078:PAAPRR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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