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Diet segregation in American bison (Bison bison) of Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, USA)

BACKGROUND: Body size is a major factor in the nutritional ecology of ruminant mammals. Females, due to their smaller size and smaller rumen, have more rapid food-passage times than males and thereby require higher quality forage. Males are more efficient at converting high-fiber forage into usable...

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Autores principales: Berini, John L., Badgley, Catherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5513210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28705156
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12898-017-0137-9