Regional heterothermy and conservation of core temperature in emperor penguins diving under sea ice

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 477-487

  Ponganis, P J ^a   Van Dam, R P ^a   Levenson, D H ^a   Knower, T ^a   Ponganis, K V ^a   Marshall, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b National Geographic Television   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerobic dive limit; Aptenodytes forsteri; Hypothermia; Penguin; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIVING; FEATHER; HEAT LOSS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYPOTHERMIA; LIMB; NONHUMAN; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STOMACH; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; THERMOREGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VEIN;

APTENODYTES FORSTERI; AVES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 0038121791     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00133-8     Document Type: Article

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