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Methane Output of Tortoises: Its Contribution to Energy Loss Related to Herbivore Body Mass

An increase in body mass (M) is traditionally considered advantageous for herbivores in terms of digestive efficiency. However, recently increasing methane losses with increasing M were described in mammals. To test this pattern in non-mammal herbivores, we conducted feeding trails with 24 tortoises...

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Autores principales: Franz, Ragna, Soliva, Carla R., Kreuzer, Michael, Hatt, Jean-Michel, Furrer, Samuel, Hummel, Jürgen, Clauss, Marcus
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052317/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21408074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017628