The relationship among flow rate, chamber volume and calculated rate of metabolism in vertebrate respirometry

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 287-294

  McNab, Brian K ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Calculated metabolic rate; Chamber volume; Critical flow rate; Gas mixing

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FLOW RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRESSURE CHAMBER; RESPIROMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33749563768     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.02.024     Document Type: Article

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