The challenge of measuring energy expenditure: Current field and laboratory methods

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 247-251

  Halsey, Lewis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

BIOENERGY; CALORIMETRY; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; EDITORIAL; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; HEAT LOSS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; RESPIROMETRY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAXONOMY;

EID: 79251605300     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.01.001     Document Type: Editorial

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