Minimizing energy expenditure facilitates vertebrate persistence on oceanic islands

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 693-704

  McNab, Brian K ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass; Conspecific tolerance; Ectotherms; Endotherms; Faunal dispersal; Faunal persistence; Flightlessness; Oceanic islands; Rate of metabolism; Resource availability; Supertramps; Torpor

Indexed keywords

ENERGY USE; ISLAND; PERSISTENCE; VERTEBRATE;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036741228     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00365.x     Document Type: Review

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