The scaling of diving time budgets: Insights from an optimality approach

American Naturalist

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 305-314

  Stephens, Philip A ^a,e   Carbone, Chris ^b   Boyd, Ian L ^c   McNamara, John M ^a   Harding, Karin C ^d   Houston, Alasdair I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometry; Diving physiology; Marginal value theorem; Metabolic scaling; Optimal foraging; Symmorphosis

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; DIVING; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME ALLOCATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; BODY WEIGHT; DIVING; MAMMAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; DIVING; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40549098429     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/527491     Document Type: Article

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