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AN INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL TO ESTIMATE THE DAILY ENERGETIC COST OF GREATER RHEAS AND ITS CONTRIBUTION ON POPULATION RECRUITMENT

  1. MARÍA VERÓNICA SIMOY1,*,
  2. GUSTAVO JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ2,
  3. GRACIELA ANA CANZIANI3

Article first published online: 28 JAN 2013

DOI: 10.1111/nrm.12008

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SIMOY, M. V., FERNÁNDEZ, G. J. and CANZIANI, G. A. (2013), AN INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL TO ESTIMATE THE DAILY ENERGETIC COST OF GREATER RHEAS AND ITS CONTRIBUTION ON POPULATION RECRUITMENT. Natural Resource Modeling. doi: 10.1111/nrm.12008

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  1. 1

    Instituto Multidisciplinario sobre Ecosistemas y Desarrollo Sustentable. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Tandil, Argentina E-mail: mvsimoy@exa.unicen.edu.ar

  2. 2

    Laboratorio de Ecología y Comportamiento Animal, Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, ArgentinaE-mail: gjf@ege.fcen.uba.ar

  3. 3

    Instituto Multidisciplinario sobre Ecosistemas y Desarrollo Sustentable. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Tandil, Argentina. E-mail: canziani@exa.unicen.edu.ar

* María Verónica Simoy, Instituto Multidisciplinario sobre Ecosistemas y Desarrollo Sustentable. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Tandil, Argentina, e-mail: mvsimoy@exa.unicen.edu.ar

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  1. Article first published online: 28 JAN 2013
  2. Received by the editors on 2nd June 2012 and in revised form on 26th November 2012.

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