A flexible digestive strategy accommodates the nutritional demands of reproduction in a free-living folivore, the Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)

Functional Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 748-756

  Krockenberger, A K ^a,b   Hume, I D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Marsupial folivore; Mean retention time; Peak lactation; Rate of digesta passage; Reproductive energetics

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD LIMITATION; LACTATION; LIMITING FACTOR; MARSUPIAL; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS;

EID: 34447320433     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01279.x     Document Type: Article

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