Gut Size, Body Weight, and Digestion of Winter Foods by Grouse and Ptarmigan
- 1 May 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 85 (2) , 185-193
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1367253
Abstract
A model for grouse and ptarmigan relating the digestibility of their winter foods to their body weights and gut lengths is presented. The observed digestibility...This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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