Benefits of mass reduction for commuting flight with heavy food load in Leach's storm-petrel, Oceanodroma leucorhoa

Ecological Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 197-203

  Niizuma, Yasuaki ^a,d   Takahashi, Akinori ^a,e   Sasaki, Noriyasu ^b,c   Hayama, Shin ichi ^c   Tokita, Norio ^c   Watanuki, Yutaka ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body composition; Energy supplying organ; Flight cost; Leach's storm petrel; Mass reduction

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BODY CONDITION; BODY MASS; INCUBATION; SEABIRD;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; HYDROBATINAE; OCEANODROMA LEUCORHOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035384644     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2001.00386.x     Document Type: Article

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