Is mass loss in Brünnich's guillemots Uria lomvia an adaptation for improved flight performance or improved dive performance?

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 619-628

  Elliott, Kyle H ^a   Jacobs, Shoshanah R ^b   Ringrose, Julian ^b   Gaston, Anthony J ^b   Davoren, Gail K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY MASS; BROOD REARING; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; INCUBATION; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; OXYGEN; SEABIRD;

CANADA; COATS ISLAND; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

ALCIDAE; AVES; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 56049097474     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2008.04316.x     Document Type: Article

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