Measuring energy expenditure in sub-adult and hatchling sea turtles via accelerometry

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Halsey, Lewis G ^a   Jones, T Todd ^b   Jones, David R ^c   Liebsch, Nikolai ^d   Booth, David T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER; OXYGEN;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIA MYDAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; HATCHLING; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURTLE; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; METABOLISM;

CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; OXYGEN; TURTLES;

EID: 79961132116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022311     Document Type: Article

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