Basal metabolic rate in carnivores is associated with diet after controlling for phylogeny

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1039-1056

  Muñoz Garcia, Agustí ^a   Williams, Joseph B ^a  

^a Aronoff Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CARNIVORY; DIET; ENDOTHERMY; HOME RANGE; METABOLISM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; CARNIVORA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; CARNIVORA; DIET; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA;

EID: 27744608487     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432852     Document Type: Article

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