Insights from the eco-physiological book of records: Bewick's swans outperform the canonical intake-maximizing vertebrate

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1156-1160

  Klaassen, Marcel ^a   Hangelbroek, Helen H ^b   de Boer, Thijs ^a   Nolet, Bart A ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOENERGETICS; BIOMASS; ENDOTHERMY; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY; STOPOVER; WATERFOWL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CYGNUS; CYGNUS COLUMBIANUS BEWICKII; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954609728     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.18186.x     Document Type: Article

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