Limits to food intake by the Prairie Vole: Effects of time for digestion

Functional Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 58-66

  Zynel, C A ^a   Wunder, B A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Digestive constraint; Energy assimilation; Feeding bouts; Ultradian activity rhythm

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; DIGESTION; ENERGY USE; FOOD INTAKE; HERBIVORE; RODENT;

MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MURIDAE; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036127869     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0269-8463.2001.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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