Can threshold foraging responses of basking sharks be used to estimate their metabolic rate?

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 200, Issue , 2000, Pages 289-296

  Sims, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energetics; Feeding; Scaling; Swimming speed; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

EID: 5944247416     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps200289     Document Type: Article

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