Effect of wind on field metabolic rates of breeding northern fulmars

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1181-1188

  Furness, Robert W ^a   Bryant, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breeding distribution; Energetics; Flight characteristics; Foraging; Labeled water; Northern fulmar; Procellariiform; Seabird; Weather effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000096747     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265587     Document Type: Article

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