Interindividual variability in body composition and resting oxygen consumption rate in breeding tree swallows, Tachycineta bicolor

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 247-256

  Burness, Gary P ^a   Ydenberg, Ronald C ^b   Hochachka, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 0032078193     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515917     Document Type: Article

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