13C discrimination between diet, faeces, milk and milk components

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 33-45

  Schneider, Stephan ^a   Auerswald, Karl ^a   Bellof, Gerhard ^b   Schnyder, Hans ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WEIHENSTEPHAN TRIESDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

animals; carbon 13; grazing; isotope ecology; isotope fractionation; isotope shift; milk constituents; trophic shift

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DIET; FECES; GRAZING; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MILK; PASTURE;

ANIMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

CARBON;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BOVINE; CEREAL; CHEMISTRY; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FECES; FEMALE; GERMANY; MAIZE; MILK; PROCEDURES; VETERINARY;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CATTLE; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EDIBLE GRAIN; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FECES; FEMALE; GERMANY; MILK; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84928545667     PISSN: 10256016     EISSN: 14772639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2014.988151     Document Type: Article

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