Mammalian metabolic rate scaling to 2/3 or 3/4 depends on the presence of gut contents

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 153-154

  Clauss, Marcus ^a   Hummel, Jürgen ^b   Streich, W Jürgen ^c   Südekum, Karl Heinz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

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MAMMALIA;

EID: 39749176249     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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