Scaling of soaring seabirds and implications for flight abilities of giant pterosaurs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Sato, Katsufumi ^a   Sakamoto, Kentaro Q ^b   Watanuki, Yutaka ^c   Takahashi, Akinori ^d   Katsumata, Nobuhiro ^a   Bost, Charles André ^e   Weimerskirch, Henri ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOSAUR; EXTINCT SPECIES; FLIGHT; FLYING; FORELIMB; NONHUMAN; SEABIRD; SPECIES COMPARISON; ACCELERATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; DIOMEDEIDAE; PROCELLARIIDAE;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; DINOSAURS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WING;

EID: 65549141132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005400     Document Type: Article

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