Tannins as nutritional constraints for elk and deer of the coastal Pacific Northwest.
In the coastal Pacific Northwest, diets of elk ( Cervus elaphus roosevelti ) and deer ( Odocoileus hemionus columbianus ) are dominated by shrubs, ferns, and forbs solution 17,18 or agarose gel. 19 In this paper, we refer to the capacity to precipitate proteins as astringency. 20
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