The use and application of stable isotope analysis to the study of starvation, fasting, and nutritional stress in animals

Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 337-364

  Hatch, Kent A ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29056-5_20     Document Type: Chapter

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