Using plasma-lipid metabolites to index changes in lipid reserves of free-living lesser scaup (Aythya affinis)

Auk

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 354-357

  Anteau, Michael J ^a,b   Afton, Alan D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aythya affinis; Catabolism; Fattening; Lesser Scaup; Mass change; Metabolites; Migration

Indexed keywords

CATABOLISM; DETECTION METHOD; HABITAT QUALITY; INDEX METHOD; LIPID; METABOLITE; MIGRATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PLASMA; WATERFOWL;

ANATIDAE; AVES; AYTHYA AFFINIS;

EID: 67649827096     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2008.06255     Document Type: Article

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