Body Composition Analysis of Animals
Subtitle: A Handbook of Non-Destructive Methods
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 20, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521663380
Subjects: Veterinary anatomy & physiology; Zoology & animal sciences; Medical; Physiological Research; Science; Physiology; Nondestructive testing; Agriculture - General; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Body composition--Measurement--Handbooks, manuals, etc; Science / Zoology; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Body composition; Measurement
First sentence: External measures of animal size, e.g. body mass, wing chord, foot length, and so on are often used by ecologists to develop body condition indices, e.g. body mass/length.