Inhibiting ventilatory evaporation produces an adaptive increase in cutaneous evaporation in mourning doves Zenaida macroura

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3021-3028

  Hoffman, Ty C M ^a   Walsberg, Glenn E ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Conductance; Cutaneous evaporation; Evaporative water loss; Mourning dove; Thermoregulation; Zenaida macroura

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032703018     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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