Intraspecific Variation in Metabolic Rate and Its Relationship with Productivity in the Cotton Rat, Sigmodon hispidus
- 18 August 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 70 (3) , 520-531
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1381424
Abstract
We investigated the relationship between basal metabolic rate and production rates (i.e., tissue biosynthesis) at the intraspecific level in SigmodonThis publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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