Metabolic limits on dive duration and swimming speed in the southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 790-798

  Hindell, M A ^a   Lea, M A ^a   Morrice, M G ^a   MacMahon, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVING BEHAVIOR; LIMITING FACTOR; METABOLISM; PINNIPED; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; DIVING; FEMALE; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; TIME;

AEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; DIVING; FEMALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEALS, EARLESS; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANT; MAMMALIA; MIROUNGA LEONINA; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 0034493229     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318104     Document Type: Article

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