On the intraspecific variability in basal metabolism and the food habits hypothesis in birds

The food habits hypothesis (FHH) stands as one of the most striking and often-cited interspecific patterns to emerge from comparative studies of endothermic energetics. The FHH identifies three components of diet that potentially produce variability in mass-independent BMR, i.e. food quality, food a...

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Main Author: F. BOZINOVIC, P. SABAT
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2010-12-01
Series:Current Zoology
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Online Access:http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=11700