Low costs of terrestrial locomotion in waders

Ardea

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 199-205

  Bruinzeel, Leo W ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b   Kersten, Marcel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; Arenaria interpres; Body mass regulation; Calidris canutus; Cost of foraging; Energetics; Treadmill; Walking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142036772     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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