Using 13C in cattle hair to trace back the maize level in the feeding regime-A field test.

Sections from cattle hair serve as an isotopic archive-they contain information on the cattle diet from different time periods. We tested the reliability of 13C signatures (δ13C) in cattle tail switch hair to retrospectively trace back the annual dietary proportion of maize of different production s...

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Main Authors: Verena Hammes, Olaf Nüsse, Johannes Isselstein, Manfred Kayser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5705144?pdf=render