Seabird digestive physiology in relation to foraging ecology
This study addresses the question: are seabirds digestive opportunists or specialists? The extent of specialization in seabird digestive processes to different diets and foraging methods, is investigated experimentally. Gut passage rates of different food types of tested in vitro digestibility may r...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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University of Cape Town
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21813 |