Growth Rate as a Function of Food Consumption in Hatchling Sceloporus virgatus (Sauria: Iguanidae)

Authors

Geoffrey R. Smith, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

1995

Document Type

Article

Comments

1995. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, 22: 73-76. Copyright © 1995 Smith.

Abstract

The potential for food availability and consumption to produce variation in growth rates among hatchling striped plateau lizards (Sceloporus virgatus) was studied under laboratory conditions. Growth rate and survivorship were positively linearly related to the amount of food consumed. Differences in food consumption and availability created large differences in body size by the end of the experiment.