Heterothermy in growing king penguins

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Eichhorn, Götz ^a,b   Groscolas, René ^a,b   Le Glaunec, Gaële ^a,b   Parisel, Camille ^a,b   Arnold, Laurent ^a,b   Medina, Patrice ^a,b   Handrich, Yves ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHICK; CLIMATE; DIET RESTRICTION; EFFECT SIZE; HETEROTHERMY; KING PENGUIN; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; THERMOREGULATION; VELOCITY; WIND; ANIMAL; COLD; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON;

ANIMALIA; APTENODYTES PATAGONICUS; AVES;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD TEMPERATURE; FASTING; FEMALE; MALE; SEASONS; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 80052423812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1436     Document Type: Article

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