Osmoregulation by Adelie Penguin chicks on the Antarctic Peninsula

Auk

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 488-495

  Janes, Donald N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA; EUPHAUSIACEA; GALLUS GALLUS; INVERTEBRATA; PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 0030791464     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089249     Document Type: Article

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