Repeatable measures of take-off flight performance in auklets

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 268, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 395-404

  Renner, M ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration to mass relationship; Aethia cristatella; Aethia pusilla; Programmed anorexia

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; BIRD; FLIGHT ACTIVITY;

AETHIA; AETHIA CRISTATELLA; AETHIA PUSILLA; AVES;

EID: 33644984612     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2005.00036.x     Document Type: Article

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