Adaptive significance of food income in European snakes: Body size is related to prey energetics

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 307-317

  Zuffi, Marco A L ^a   Fornasiero, Sara ^a   Picchiotti, Riccardo ^a   Poli, Piera ^a   Mele, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colubridae; Comparative analysis; Diet; Energy balance; Serpentes; Viperidae

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRICKET; DIET; ENERGY BALANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIZARD; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PREY SELECTION; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RODENT; SNAKE;

COLUBRIDAE; GRYLLIDAE; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; MUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 77954102530     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01411.x     Document Type: Article

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