Flight modes in migrating European bee-eaters: Heart rate may indicate low metabolic rate during soaring and gliding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Sapir, Nir ^a   Wikelski, Martin ^b,e   Mccue, Marshall D ^c   Pinshow, Berry ^d   Nathan, Ran ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BIRD; BREEDING; CALORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY COST; FLYING; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELEMETRY; ANIMAL; FORELIMB; HEART RATE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

APOIDEA; AVES; DIOMEDEA; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS; MEROPS APIASTER; THALASSARCHE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BIRDS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HEART RATE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELEMETRY; WING;

EID: 78649753447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013956     Document Type: Article

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