Why marathon migrants get away with high metabolic ceilings: Towards an ecology of physiological restraint

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 295-302

  Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Athletes; BMR; Disease ecology; Endurance exercise; Energetics; Heat stress; Life history decisions; Metabolic rate; Migration; Telomere shortening; Trade off

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BIRD; ENDURANCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BIRDS; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 78651287984     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.046748     Document Type: Article

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