Essays about: "Droppings"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the word Droppings.

  1. 1. Älgens och skogshönsens nyttjande av ett två år gammalt brandfält

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Alice Kårehagen; Hannah Sophie Jakob; [2022]
    Keywords : älg; Alces alces; skogshöns; Tetraoninae; brand; skogsbrand; älgbete; Ljusdal;

    Abstract : Forest fires have had an extensive impact on our landscapes. Natural forest fires are especially important for the regeneration of pine and nutrition cycle in the boreal zone. READ MORE

  2. 2. Effects of whitefish speciation on piscivorous birds : A dietary study of piscivorous birds in central and northern Sweden

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap

    Author : Erik Söderlund; [2021]
    Keywords : Coregonus lavaretus; piscivorous; birds; diet; speciation;

    Abstract : The ecological communities we observe today are a product of the bidirectional interactions between ecological and evolutionary processes. Although the effects of ecological processes on population divergence and speciation have been studied extensively, far less is known about the effects of divergence and speciation on ecological dynamics. READ MORE

  3. 3. Ciona (Ciona intestinalis) as a source of fibre for chickens : Effects on productive performance, organs weights and caecal microbiota

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Nutrition and Management

    Author : Qasim Mashood; [2019]
    Keywords : Broiler; dietary fibre; ciona; cellulose; gut microbiota; sodium;

    Abstract : In this experimental study broiler birds were fed in a randomized block design for 32 days on a control diet (C) based on wheat and soy bean meal and two experimental diets containing 2% (C2) and 4% ciona meal (C4) to examine the suitability of Ciona intestinalis in poultry feed as a source of fibre and its effects on growth performance, microbial composition and digestive traits. Luminal content was taken from caeca at day 12 and 32 and analysed for microbiota profile and short chain fatty acids (SCFA). READ MORE

  4. 4. Effects of silage and haylage on feed intake, growth and health in two meat type chicken genotypes

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Nutrition and Management

    Author : Temwanoku Ioakim; [2018]
    Keywords : silage; haylage; broiler hybrid; feed intake; growth; health;

    Abstract : In this project the effect of grass silage and haylage on feed intake (FI), growth and health of two meat type chicken hybrids, Ross 308 and Rowan Ranger were studied. The study was carried out at the Swedish Livestock Research Center, located in Funbo-Lövsta, Uppsala for a period of 42 days. READ MORE

  5. 5. Conservation of saproxylic beetles in a wooded pasture in northern Scania

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Examensarbeten i biologi

    Author : Andreas Schmidt; [2018]
    Keywords : Biology and Life Sciences;

    Abstract : The area of wooded pasture in Europe has decreased drastically over the last centuries due to abandoned management. Herrevadskloster is a newly formed nature reserve in northern Scania with an unusually long continuity of being an open, grazed woodland containing large old trees. READ MORE