Digestibility of Plant Constitutents By Canada Geese and Atlantic Brant

• Published in: Ecology
• Main Authors: Buchsbaum, Robert, Wilson, John, Valiela, Ivan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1986
• Subjects: Brant; Canada; Branta bernicla
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1938581; http://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.2307%2F1938581; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.2307%2F1938581; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2307/1938581

The ability of free—ranging Brant (Branta bernicla) and free ranging and captive Canada Geese (B. canadensis) to digest various constituents of marsh plants was studied using lignin as a nondigestible tracer in plant food and feces. These constituents included total organic matter, soluble carbohydr...