'No cost of echolocation for flying bats' revisited

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 182, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 831-840

  Voigt, Christian C ^a,b   Lewanzik, Daniel ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Echolocation; Energetics; Flight costs

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; FLYING; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE;

CHIROPTERA; RHOGEESSA IO; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 84870041026     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-012-0663-x     Document Type: Article

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