New and continuing issues with using visible fat classes to estimate fat stores of birds

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-133

  Rogers, Christopher M ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAT RESERVE;

AVES;

EID: 0038235989     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-048X.2003.03223.x     Document Type: Review

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