Predicting diet quality of white-tailed deer via NIRS fecal profiling

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 300-307

  Showers, Scott E ^a   Tolleson, Douglas R ^b   Stuth, Jerry W ^b   Kroll, James C ^c   Koerth, Ben H ^c  

^a CARGILL INC   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crude protein; Digestible organic matter; Feces; Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy; Odocoileus virginianus; Phosphorus

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DEER; FECES; FOOD QUALITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIVESTOCK; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; PREDICTION; PROTEIN;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 33749160002     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/04-069.1     Document Type: Article

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