Environment, migratory tendency, phylogeny and basal metabolic rate in birds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Jetz, Walter ^a   Freckleton, Robert P ^b   McKechnie, Andrew E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BIRD; BODY MASS; BREEDING; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; METABOLISM; MIGRANT BIRD; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 53249125180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003261     Document Type: Article

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