The power of feeder-mask respirometry as a method for examining hummingbird energetics

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 276-286

  Welch, Kenneth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FUEL; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; ECOLOGY; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENERGY YIELD; FEEDER MASK RESPIROMETRY; FLIGHT; FLOW RATE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOWL; HUMMINGBIRD; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RESPIROMETRY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; TROCHILIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79251597302     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.07.014     Document Type: Article

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