Demographic and phenotypic effects of human mediated trophic subsidy on a large Australian lizard (varanus varius): Meal ticket or last supper?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Jessop, Tim S ^a,b   Smissen, Peter ^a   Scheelings, Franciscus ^c   Dempster, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Department of Conservation and Research Zoos Victoria ^*  (Australia)

^c Healesville Sanctuary   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD PARASITE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOD WEB; FOREST; LIZARD; MALE; MEAL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDATION; PROGENY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; VARANUS VARIUS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; METABOLISM; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALIA; SQUAMATA; VARANUS VARIUS;

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; LIZARDS; MALE; PARASITE LOAD; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEX RATIO; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84859241568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034069     Document Type: Article

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