Energetic savings and the body size distributions of gliding mammals

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1151-1162

  Dial, Roman ^a  

^a ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Body size distribution; Energetics; Mammalian gliders

Indexed keywords

CYNOCEPHALIDAE; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PETAURISTINAE; SCIURIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2542431593     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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