Maintenance energy costs of two partially folivorous tropical passerines

Auk

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 246-252

  Bosque, Carlos ^a   Pacheco, M Andreina ^a   Siegel, Rodney B ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0033003906     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089474     Document Type: Article

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