Test of a digestion optimization model: Effects of costs of feeding on digestive parameters

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 168-178

  McWilliams, Scott R ^a,b   Karasov, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGESTION; FEEDING COST; MODELLING; WAXWING;

BOMBYCILLA CEDRORUM;

EID: 0032033459     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515902     Document Type: Article

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