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Performance of the long-snouted seahorse, Hippocampus guttulatus, under warming conditions
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Temperature is a determinant cue for several behavioral, physiological, and metabolic processes in fish, which occur within a range set to optimize species fitness. Understanding how ocean warming will impact species, at individual and population levels,
Ana Beatriz Costa +5 more
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Immune activity, body condition and human-associated environmental impacts in a wild marine mammal [PDF]
, 2013 PMB was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (www.nerc.ac.uk), the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (www.ufaw.org.uk) and the Sea Mammal Research Unit (www.smru.st-and.ac.uk).
Simon J Goodman +17 more
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Obesity prevalence and associated risk factors in outdoor living domestic horses and ponies [PDF]
, 2014 Reasons for performing study. The prevalence of obesity in companion animals, including horses and ponies has risen drastically in recent years and risk factors have been little investigated.
Sean A. Rands +7 more
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Cow Body Shape and Automation of Condition Scoring [PDF]
Journal of Dairy Science, 2008 The feasibility of including a body shape measure in methods for automatic monitoring of body reserves of cattle was evaluated. The hypothesis tested was that the body shape of a fatter cow is rounder than that of a thin cow and, therefore, may better fit a parabolic shape.
Halachmi, I +3 more
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Concentrations of Some Minerals According to Body Condition in Local Sheep
The Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 2011 Calcium, magnesium, phosphorous, sodium, potassium and chloride concentrations were estimated in 150 sheep in Baghdad classified according to body condition toemaciated, weamediu and fat sheep.
M H . Al-Judi
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 When Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) spawn and die, they deliver marine‐derived nutrient subsidies to freshwater and riparian ecosystems. These subsidies can alter the behavior, productivity, and abundance of recipient species and their habitats ...
Nicola F. Rammell +3 more
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Estimating resource acquisition and at-sea body condition of a marine predator
, 2013 This article was made open access through BIS OA funding.(1) Body condition plays a fundamental role in many ecological and evolutionary processes at a variety of scales and across a broad range of animal taxa.
COSTA, Daniel P +18 more
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Canine recommended breed weight ranges are not a good predictor of an ideal body condition score [PDF]
, 2018 Breed-specific ideal bodyweight range information is widely used by dog owners and breeders as a guideline to ensure animals are within a healthy weight range.
Sulsh, L. +6 more
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Body condition and indicators of energy status of cows in advanced gravidity and early stage of lactation [PDF]
Veterinarski Glasnik, 2010 The objective of the investigations was to establish the validity of certain metabolic and endocrine indicators of energy metabolism in comparison with the body condition of cows during the final stage of pregnancy and the early stage of lactation.
Prodanović Radiša +4 more
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, 2007 peer-reviewedThe objective of the present study was to quantify the relationships among body condition score (BCS; scale 1 to 5), live weight (WT) and milk production in Irish Holstein-Friesian spring calving dairy cows.
Buckley, Frank +2 more
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