Environmental variation at the onset of independent foraging affects full-grown body mass in the red fox

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1649, 2008, Pages 2411-2418

  Soulsbury, Carl D ^a   Iossa, Graziella ^a   Baker, Philip J ^a,b   Harris, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate variation; Growth rate; Invertebrates; Lumbricus terrestris; Nutritional independence; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CANID; CLIMATE VARIATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIETARY SHIFT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; JUVENILE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PARENTAL CARE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL;

ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY MASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; EARTHWORM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FORAGING; FOX; INSECT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VULPES VULPES;

CANIDAE; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 51449110165     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0705     Document Type: Article

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