Metabolic costs of growth in free-living Garter Snakes and they energy budgets of ectotherms

Functional Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 500-507

  Peterson, C C ^a   Walton, B M ^b   Bennett, A F ^c  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological energetics; Field metabolic rate; Protein synthesis; Thamnophis sirtalis

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BUDGET; GROWTH; METABOLISM; SNAKE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS;

EID: 0032881822     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1999.00339.x     Document Type: Article

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