Reduced metabolic cost of locomotion in Svalbard rock ptarmigan (lagopus muta hyperborea) during winter

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Lees, John ^a   Nudds, Robert ^a   Stokkan, Karl Arne ^b   Folkow, Lars ^b   Codd, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY COST; KINEMATICS; LAGOPUS MUTA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; WINTER; ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARCTIC; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY METABOLISM; GALLIFORMES; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

AVES; LAGOPUS; LAGOPUS MUTUS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATS; GALLIFORMES; LOCOMOTION; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SEASONS; SVALBARD;

EID: 78649748869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015490     Document Type: Article

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