Pushed for time or saving on fuel: Fine-scale energy budgets shed light on currencies in a diving bird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1670, 2009, Pages 3149-3155

  Shepard, Emily L C ^a   Wilson, Rory P ^a   Quintana, Flavio ^b,c   Laich, Agustina Gómez ^b   Forman, Dan W ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Central place foraging; Currency; Energy expenditure; Foraging strategy; Time energy budget

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BIRD; ENERGY BUDGET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; DIVING; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FORAGING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHALACROCORAX ATRICEPS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PHALACROCORAX ATRICEPS;

EID: 68849116575     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0683     Document Type: Article

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