Essays about: "functional feeding groups"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words functional feeding groups.

  1. 1. Tiaminbrist på idisslare : hur vanligt är det med symtom i Sverige?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

    Author : Johan Turnstedt; [2024]
    Keywords : CCN; cerebrocortikal nekros; PEM; polioencefalomalaci; enkätstudie;

    Abstract : Tiamin är ett vattenlösligt vitamin essentiellt för många djur, inklusive människor. Idisslare producerar normalt tillräckligt med tiamin via mikrober i våmmen, men brist kan ändå uppstå vid särskilda förhållanden. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Impact of Oat and Fruit Consumption on Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Livsmedelsteknik och nutrition (master)

    Author : Johanna Margaretha Schilder; [2023]
    Keywords : short-chain fatty acids; SCFAs; diet; gas chromatography; serum; mice; applied nutrition and food chemistry; Agriculture and Food Sciences;

    Abstract : This study explored the importance of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in maintaining gut health and how different diets affect their levels. Blood plasma and serum samples from mice subjected to two intervention studies on oats and fruits were analysed to determine SCFA concentrations. READ MORE

  4. 3. Effects of native freshwater mussels and leaf debris on benthic macroinvertebrate abundance and diversity : A field experiment with Margaritifera margaritifera in Vasslabäcken, Örebro county

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för miljö- och livsvetenskaper (from 2013)

    Author : Kai Sven Onken; [2021]
    Keywords : bivalve; functional role; habitat modification; decomposition; biodeposition;

    Abstract : Organisms that are part of complex ecosystems interact not only with other organisms but also with their environment, affecting ecosystem functions. In aquatic ecosystems filter feeders affect ecosystem functioning by transferring energy and nutrients from the water to the benthos. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Behavioural Ecology of a Potentially Undescribed Morph of Saki Monkey (genus Pithecia) in a Highly Diverse Primate Community

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ekologi och genetik; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning

    Author : Emily Lehtonen; [2017]
    Keywords : Amazon; behavioural ecology; niche differentiation; Peru; Pithecia; primates; saki monkey;

    Abstract : The importance of tropical forests for global diversity and ecosystem function is well established in scientific literature, but is undermined by gaps in our knowledge of tropical ecosystems and species. Primates play important functional roles in these ecosystems, and despite constituting one of the most well-recognised taxa in the world, many species remain poorly studied. READ MORE

  6. 5. Effects of beaver dams on benthic macroinvertebrates

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning

    Author : Andreas Johansson; [2014]
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    Abstract : In the 1870's the beaver (Castor fiber), population in Sweden had been exterminated. Thebeaver was reintroduced to Sweden from the Norwegian population between 1922 and 1939.Today the population has recovered and it is estimated that the population of C. fiber in all ofEurope today ranges around 639,000 individuals. READ MORE