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The Nutritional Balancing Act of a Large Herbivore: An Experiment with Captive Moose (Alces alces L)

The nutrient balancing hypothesis proposes that, when sufficient food is available, the primary goal of animal diet selection is to obtain a nutritionally balanced diet. This hypothesis can be tested using the Geometric Framework for nutrition (GF). The GF enables researchers to study patterns of nu...

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Autores principales: Felton, Annika M., Felton, Adam, Raubenheimer, David, Simpson, Stephen J., Krizsan, Sophie J., Hedwall, Per-Ola, Stolter, Caroline
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26986618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150870