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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

Grateful for the ResearchGate recommendations on our body condition article in Oecologia! Hope it's a useful one. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Co-authored by @dhawkshaw.bsky.social and several BlueSky-less others

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Inferring condition in wild mammals: body condition indices confer no benefit over measuring body mass across ecological contexts - Oecologia

Many studies assume that it is beneficial for individuals of a species to be heavier, or have a higher body condition index (BCI), without accounting for the physiological relevance of variation in th...

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