Comparisons and Uncertainty in Fat and Adipose Tissue Estimation Techniques: The Northern Elephant Seal as a Case Study

• Main Authors: Schwarz, Lisa K, Villegas-Amtmann, Stella, Beltran, Roxanne S, Costa, Daniel P, Goetsch, Chandra, Hückstädt, Luis, Maresh, Jennifer L, Peterson, Sarah H
• Other Authors: Beatty, Brian Lee
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2015
• Subjects: Nutrition; Adipose Tissue; Adiposity; Animals; Female; Seals; Earless; Tritium; Ultrasonics; Uncertainty; General Science & Technology; Cones The; Cones, The; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w547320

Fat mass and body condition are important metrics in bioenergetics and physiological studies. They can also link foraging success with demographic rates, making them key components of models that predict population-level outcomes of environmental change. Therefore, it is important to incorporate unc...