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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Pantanal.
Data corrente: | 03/05/1999
Data da última atualização: | 03/05/1999
Autoria: | BAUMGARTNER, L. L.; MARTIN, A. C.
Título: | Plant histology as an aid in squirrel food-habit studies.
Ano de publicação: | 1939
Fonte/Imprenta: | Journal of Wildlife Management, v.3, n.3, p.266-268, 1939.
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | The usual laboratory procedures employed in identifying the stomach contents of birds and certain mammals have proved to be comparatively unsatisfactory when applied to the finely comminuted material from squirel stomachs. Resort has previously been made to chemical tests and, on occasion, to starch grain studies, but these and other angles of attack have, in the main, been unsuccessful. For this reason the present study made experimental use of a more refined procedure based on plant histology. At the outset there were two apparent barriers to success: One was whether diagnostic clues, sufficient to distinguish genera or in some cases especies, might be found in small fragments of plant tissue in squirrel food, and second was finding a tecniques simples and expeditious enough to be practical. Encouraging results were obtained during the analysis of the stomach contents of some seventy fox squirrels collected by the Ohio Wildlife Research Unit and examined in the Washington laboratory of the Section of Food Habits Research.
Palavras-Chave: | Esquilo; Food; Management; Plant; Squirrel.
Thesagro: | Alimentação; Histologia; Manejo; Planta.
Thesaurus Nal: | histology.
Categoria do assunto: | --
Registro original: | Embrapa Pantanal (CPAP)
Exemplares: | CPAP - (38516-1) - ADC - SP - -- - SP4804 -  - 4804 - DIS