A half a century of measuring ungulate body condition using indices: is it time for a change?
From a literature review of five wildlife ecology journals since 1937, we document how using indices to monitor ungulate body condition is common practice, with the kidney fat index (KFI = weight of fat around the kidneys/weight of kidneys without fat × 100) as the favoured tool (82% of studies). In...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/6603 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/6603 |