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The influence of dietary and whole-body nutrient content on the excretion of a vertebrate consumer

In many contexts, nutrient excretion by consumers can impact ecosystems by altering the availability of limiting nutrients. Variation in nutrient excretion can be predicted by mass balance models, most of which are premised on two key ideas: (1) consumers maintain fixed whole-body nutrient content (...

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Autores principales: Dalton, Christopher M., El-Sabaawi, Rana W., Honeyfield, Dale C., Auer, Sonya K., Reznick, David N., Flecker, Alexander S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5703491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29176898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187931