Average daily metabolic rate of rodents: Habitat and dietary comparisons

Functional Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-73

  Degen, A A ^a   Kam, M ^a   Khokhlova, I S ^a   Krasnov, B R ^a   Barraclough, T G ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Average daily metabolic rate; Dietary comparisons; Efficiency of utilization of energy; Heat increment of feeding; Independent contrasts

Indexed keywords

ENERGY INTAKE; GRANIVORY; HERBIVORY; METABOLIC RATE; OMNIVORY; RODENT;

EID: 0031911273     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00162.x     Document Type: Article

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