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Titre :	Gizzard and other lean mass components increase, yet Basal Metabolic Rates decrease, when red knots Calidris canutus are shifted from soft to hard-shelled food
Auteurs :	T. Piersma, Auteur ; J. A. Gessaman, Auteur ; A. Dekinga, Auteur ; G. H. Visser, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Journal of Avian Biology (35(2) MAR 2004)
Article en page(s) :	99-104
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	We measured basal metabolic rate (BMR), body mass, lean mass, and gizzard mass of captive red knots Calidris canutus islandica maintained on a trout chow diet (soft-texture, low ash and water content) for several years and then shifted to small mussels Mytilus edulis (hard-texture, high ash and water content). During a 3-week period of feeding on mussels, body mass, lean mass, and gizzard mass increased 7.3 g (+7%), 10.5 g (+ 12%), and 4.9 g (+213%), respectively, yet BMR decreased from 0.96 to 0.89 W (- 8%). Under the new mussel regime, red knots must have reduced the metabolic intensity of some of the tissues. This suggests that the experimental red knots experienced the transition to a mussel diet as stressful and energy limiting, resulting in an energy-saving strategy by reducing BMR in spite of hypertrophy of the gizzard and other organs.

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