Mechanical power output of bird flight

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6655, 1997, Pages 67-70

  Dial, K P ^a   Biewener, A A ^b   Tobalske, B W ^a   Warrick, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FLYING; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE LENGTH; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030722854     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/36330     Document Type: Article

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