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Skip to Search Results- 1Basarab, John (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Bayne, Erin (Department of Biological Sciences)
- 1Guan, Leluo (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Li, Changxi (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Mathot, Kimberley (Biological Sciences)
- 1Wellicome, Troy (Department of Biological Sciences)
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Spring 2020
Meat-type chickens have been bred for prioritizing energy partitioning to rapid gain and lean tissue growth, which required feed restriction to be commonly applied in the industry to optimize egg production. This thesis studied the effects of controlling energy intake on energy partitioning to...
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Examining the role of trade-offs between current and future reproduction in shaping provisioning decisions in birds
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Life-history theory and parental investment theory provide the theoretical framework for understanding the adaptive strategies employed by organisms to optimize reproductive success in dynamic environments. Avian species are a valuable model for testing these theories due to their diverse...
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Spring 2019
Human land use and climate change can contribute to cumulative effects, which are the collective impacts from environmental and anthropogenic processes over space and time. Exploring the cumulative effects of landscape and climate change together is important for identifying potential...
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Spring 2022
Reproductive efficiency in the Western Canadian beef cow herd has not improved over the past 3 decades, despite consistent and measurable improvement in several related areas of production. The general objective of this thesis was to evaluate the relationships between early-observation traits...