Experimental support for the cost-benefit model of lizard thermoregulation: The effects of predation risk and food supply

Oecologia

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-10

  Herczeg, Gábor ^a,b   Herrero, Annika ^a   Saarikivi, Jarmo ^a   Gonda, Abigél ^a,b   Jäntti, Maria ^c   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Thermoregulatory behaviour; Thermoregulatory strategy; Zootoca vivipara

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD SUPPLY; LABORATORY METHOD; LIZARD; PREDATION RISK; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CATERING SERVICE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; LIZARD; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; LIZARDS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

EID: 38649083777     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0886-9     Document Type: Article

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