Electrocardiogram recordings in free-ranging gannets reveal minimum difference in heart rate during flapping versus gliding flight

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 328, Issue , 2006, Pages 275-284

  Ropert Coudert, Yan ^a   Wilson, Rory P ^b   Grémillet, David ^c   Kato, Akiko ^a   Lewis, Sue ^d   Ryan, Peter G ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bio logging; Externally attached data logger; Flap and glide flight; Heart rate; Locomotion; Morus capensis; Sulidae

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; GLIDING; MONITORING; SEABIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MORUS (PLANT); MORUS CAPENSIS; SULIDAE;

EID: 33846518289     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps328275     Document Type: Article

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