Metabolic costs of foraging and the management of O2 and CO 2 stores in Steller sea lions

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3573-3580

  Fahlman, Andreas ^a   Svärd, Caroline ^a,b   Rosen, David A S ^a   Jones, David R ^a   Trites, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CO2 exchange; Diving physiology; Field metabolic rate; Hypometabolism; Marine mammal; O 2 debt; Physiological plasticity

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIVING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEAL;

ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIVING; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SEA LIONS;

EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; MAMMALIA; OTARIIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 56049097243     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.023655     Document Type: Article

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