Non-Invasive Assessment of the Interrelationships of Diet, Pregnancy Rate, Group Composition, and Physiological and Nutritional Stress of Barren-Ground Caribou in Late Winter

The winter diet of barren-ground caribou may affect adult survival, timing of parturition, neonatal survival, and postpartum mass. We used microhistological analyses and hormone levels in feces to determine sex-specific late-winter diets, pregnancy rates, group composition, and endocrine-based measu...

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Autores principales: Joly, Kyle, Wasser, Samuel K., Booth, Rebecca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26061003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127586

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26061003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127586

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