Carrying large fuel loads during sustained bird flight is cheaper than expected

Nature

Volumn 413, Issue 6857, 2001, Pages 730-732

  Kvist, Anders ^a   Lindström, Åke ^a,b   Green, Martin ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^b,c   Visser, G Henk ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FUEL CONSUMPTION; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; WIND TUNNELS;

BIRD FLIGHTS;

BIODIVERSITY;

FUEL;

BIRD; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FUEL; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FLIGHT; FLIGHT MUSCLE; MECHANICS; MIGRATION; MODEL; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035909315     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35099556     Document Type: Article

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