Contrasting digestive strategies of fruit-eating birds

Functional Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 728-741

  Witmer, M C ^a,b   Van Soest, P J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cedar Waxwing; Lipid; Nitrogen; Sugar; Thrush

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DIGESTIBILITY; FRUGIVORY;

EID: 0031702715     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00242.x     Document Type: Article

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