An experimental validation of heat loss models for marine mammals

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-23

  Kvadsheim, Petter H ^a   Gotaas, Anne R L ^a   Folkow, Lars P ^a   Blix, Arnoldus S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; BODY TEMPERATURE; HEAT LOSS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METABOLIC RATE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL;

EID: 0031556928     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1996.0256     Document Type: Article

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