New perspectives for estimating body condition from mass/length data: the scaled mass index as an alternative method

By J. Peig, A. Green. 2009

1,821 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecological Modeling

1. J. Maccracken
2. Jennifer L. Stebbings
3. Melanie Dammhahn
4. Pauline Vuarin
5. P. Henry
6. S. Adamo
7. Madison Acker
8. Z. Stahlschmidt

In Ecology

1. J. Peig
2. J. Maccracken
3. Jennifer L. Stebbings
4. Melanie Dammhahn
5. Pauline Vuarin
6. P. Henry
7. Stephen J. Simpson
8. David Raubenheimer

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. J. Peig
2. David Raubenheimer
3. J. Maccracken
4. Jennifer L. Stebbings
5. Stephen J. Simpson
6. Melanie Dammhahn
7. P. Henry
8. Pauline Vuarin

Citations in the corpus

• Are all eggs created equal? Food availability and the fitness trade-off between reproduction and immunity (2013, methodology): “We corrected for interindividual variation in body mass due to body size using body mass and femur length to determine body condition on 1, 11 and 17 day postadult moult via the scaled mass index (Peig & Green 2009).”
• Moving beyond body condition indices as an estimate of fitness in ecological and evolutionary studies (2016, background): “…and analysis of these indices (Garn, Leonard & Hawthorne 1986; Jakob, Marshall & Uetz 1996; Kotiaho 1999; Marshall, Jakob & Uetz 1999; Green 2001; Hayes & Shonkwiler 2001; Schulte-Hostedde, Millar & Hickling 2001; Schulte-Hostedde et al. 2005; Peig & Green 2009, 2010; Labocha, Schutz & Hayes 2014).”
• Test of a Body Condition Index with Amphibians (2012, methodology): “However, the scaled body composition estimates, the best measure of energy stores (Peig and Green, 2009), were correlated to a greater degree with the SMI than raw body composition estimates.”
• The paradigm of body condition: a critical reappraisal of current methods based on mass and length (2010, methodology): “This method provides empirical results in accordance with the theoretical precepts identified for studies of condition, and has previously been validated with data on body components such as fat and protein (Peig & Green 2009).”
• Individual flexibility in energy saving: body size and condition constrain torpor use (2013, methodology): “…(Pinheiro & Bates 2000: p. 229), and we allowed variability in Tsk to 168 exponentially increase with BCI and HW and decrease with Ta, by adding a variance function 169 for each covariate (‘varExp’ function, respectively parameters δ, γ and ω; Zuur et al. 2009: p. 170 80, as in Peig & Green 2009).”
• Hormones and Fitness: Evidence for Trade-Offs in Glucocorticoid Regulation Across Contexts (2018, background): “…effect, and combinations of the fixed effects (continuous except where specified): year (categorical), body condition (scaled body mass index: Peig and Green, 2009), age (categorical), clutch initiation date, daily mean temperature (during incubation or nestling provisioning), baseline…”