Costly neighbours: Heterospecific competitive interactions increase metabolic rates in dominant species
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-05485-9
Abstract: The energy costs of self-maintenance (standard metabolic rate, SMR) vary substantially among individuals within a population. Despite the importance of SMR for understanding life history strategies, ecological sources of SMR variation remain only partially understood.… read more here.
Keywords: costly neighbours; competitive interactions; heterospecific competitive; interactions increase ... See more keywords