To breathe or not to breathe? Optimal breathing, aerobic dive limit and oxygen stores in deep-diving blue-eyed shags

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 565-576

  Cook, Timothee R ^a   Lescroël, Amelie ^a   Tremblay, Yann ^b   Bost, Charles Andre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aerobic dive limit; behavioural plasticity; cormorant; diving behaviour; endotherm; hypothermia; optimal diving; oxygen reserves; parabronchial lung; Phalacrocorax spp

Indexed keywords

DIVING BEHAVIOR; ENDOTHERMY; METABOLISM; OXIC CONDITIONS; RESPIRATION; SEABIRD; WATER DEPTH;

AVES; PHALACROCORAX; PHALACROCORAX VERRUCOSUS;

EID: 49149113214     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.02.010     Document Type: Article

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