From doubly labelled water to half-life; validating radio-isotopic rubidium turnover to measure metabolism in small vertebrates

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 619-628

  Tomlinson, Sean ^a   Maloney, Shane K ^a   Withers, Philip C ^a   Voigt, Christian C ^b   Cruz Neto, Ariovaldo P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

86Rb kb; Doubly labelled water; Field metabolic rate; Radioisotope turnover; Sminthopsis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879748575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12056     Document Type: Article

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