Sentence examples for total blubber from inspiring English sources

These four independent variables were then used in a stepwise least-squares linear regression model to determine whether they were good predictors of total blubber mass.

Data on total blubber mass (kilograms; from sculp weights) were available for 156 harbor porpoises stranded in the United Kingdom between 1981 and 1987 in addition to sex, total body mass, length, and axillary girth.

Examples from published studies that report comparable data include animals incidentally caught in Scandinavian (Danish and Norwegian) waters between 1987 and 1991, in which total blubber PCBs ranged from 4 to 65 mg/kg lipid weight, with a median of 20 mg/kg (Kleivane et al. 1995).

Fifty known-age, adult seals (9 27 years, 24 males, 26 females) in McMurdo Sound were sampled for mass, total body fat, blubber depth and a suite of blood parameters (21 variables) to assess hydration state, nutritional plane, reproductive hormones (females only), organ function and immune status.

Finally, ecotoxicological investigations detected high organochlorine (OC) pollutant levels in blubber (total PCBs: 21269.16 ng/g lipidic weight; total DDTs: 23720.94 ng/g lwt).

Total PCBs in blubber of ringed seal and beluga whale (common in the Inuit diet) were 0.96 5.60 and 0.31 1.50 μg/g lipid, respectively (Sandau et al. 2000); the concentration of total PCBs in pilot whale blubber (Faroe Island diet) was 10 40 μg/g lipid (Fängström et al. 2002).

The resulting model equation allowed us to then estimate the total amount of blubber for each animal (where males = 1 and females = 0) as follows: The frequency distribution of the estimated blubber masses as a percentage of total body mass is shown in Figure 4.

However, buoyancy is one of the most variable factors associated with the body condition of wild animals – as seen in pinnipeds where blubber and total body lipid content can vary by at least 10% of total body mass (Webb et al., 1998; Pitcher et al., 2000).

The statistical analysis using the non-parametric test of Kruskal-Wallis confirmed significant differences (p<0.025) between liver, muscles and blubber for total and carcinogenic PAHs.

Standard body measurements, total body, organ, and blubber weights, and tooth counts were determined when possible.

On average, ∑25PCBs made up 62% of the total contaminant concentrations in the blubber, with DDT accounting only for a further 18%.