Interactions of body shape, body size and stroke-acceleration patterns in costs of underwater swimming by birds

Functional Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 106-112

  Lovvorn, J R ^a   Liggins, G A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Foot propulsion; Oscillatory stroking; Quasi steady models; Wing propulsion

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BODY SHAPE; BODY SIZE; SWIMMING;

AVES; MAMMALIA; PODICIPEDIDAE; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036126296     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0269-8463.2001.00604.x     Document Type: Article

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