Energy expenditure in relation to flight speed: What is the power of mass loss rate estimates?

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 485-498

  Kvist, Anders ^a   Klaassen, Marcel ^b   Lindström, Åke ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAS CRECCA; AVES; LUSCINIA LUSCINIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032440571     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3677168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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