Silver spoons and snake body sizes: Prey availability early in life influences long-term growth rates of freeranging pythons

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 952-958

  Madsen, Thomas ^a   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environment; Prey abundance; Reptile; Resources; Snake

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; GROWTH RATE; PREY AVAILABILITY; SNAKE;

AUSTRALIA;

AMPHIBIA; LIASIS FUSCUS; PYTHONIDAE; RATTUS COLLETTI; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034492551     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2000.00477.x     Document Type: Article

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