Fecal nitrogen concentration as a nutritional quality indicator for European rabbit ecological studies.

Measuring the quality of the nutritional resources available to wild herbivores is critical to understanding trophic regulation processes. However, the direct assessment of dietary nutritional characteristics is usually difficult, which hampers monitoring nutritional constraints in natural populatio...

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Main Authors: Esperanza Gil-Jiménez, Miriam Villamuelas, Emmanuel Serrano, Miguel Delibes, Néstor Fernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125190