Body temperature and resting behavior of Greater Snow Goose goslings in the high Arctic

Condor

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 163-171

  Fortin, Daniel ^a,b   Gauthier, Gilles ^b   Larochelle, Jacques ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Body temperature; Chen caerulescens atlantica; Greater Snow Goose; Huddling; Hypothermia; Social thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

CHEN CAERULESCENS;

EID: 0033969464     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370417     Document Type: Article

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