Relationships between head size, bite force, prey handling efficiency and diet in two sympatric lacertid lizards

Functional Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 842-850

  Verwaijen, D ^a   Van Damme, R ^a   Herrel, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bite performance; Lacertidae; Prey handling; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

HANDLING TIME; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; PREY SELECTION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

ARCHAEOLACERTA OXYCEPHALA; LACERTA; LACERTIDAE; PODARCIS; PODARCIS MELISELLENSIS; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036942375     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2002.00696.x     Document Type: Article

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