Energetic constraints on the diet of terrestrial carnivores

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6759, 1999, Pages 286-288

  Carbone, Chris ^a,b   Mace, Georgina M ^a   Roberts, S Craig ^a   Macdonald, David W ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; DIET; ENERGY BALANCE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CARNIVORA; DIET; ECOLOGY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEEDING; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033581877     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46266     Document Type: Article

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