Comparisons and Uncertainty in Fat and Adipose Tissue Estimation Techniques: The Northern Elephant Seal as a Case Study.

Fat mass and body condition are important metrics in bioenergetics and physiological studies. They can also link foraging success with demographic rates, making them key components of models that predict population-level outcomes of environmental change. Therefore, it is important to incorporate unc...

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Main Authors: Lisa K Schwarz, Stella Villegas-Amtmann, Roxanne S Beltran, Daniel P Costa, Chandra Goetsch, Luis Hückstädt, Jennifer L Maresh, Sarah H Peterson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4486730?pdf=render