Modeling Huddling Penguins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Waters, Aaron ^a   Blanchette, François ^a   Kim, Arnold D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT; HEAT LOSS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PENGUIN; SIMULATION; WIND;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPHENISCIDAE; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84869208037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050277     Document Type: Article

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