Assessing the development and application of the accelerometry technique for estimating energy expenditure

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 305-314

  Halsey, Lewis G ^a   Shepard, Emily L C ^b   Wilson, Rory P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Calibration; Cormorant; Energy expenditure; Metabolic rate; ODBA

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETRY; ACCURACY; BIRD; CALIBRATION; DIVING; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OVERALL DYNAMIC BODY ACCELERATION; RESPIROMETRY; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79251597860     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.09.002     Document Type: Review

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