Accelerometry predicts daily energy expenditure in a bird with high activity levels

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Elliott, Kyle H ^a   Le Vaillant, Maryline ^b,c,f   Kato, Akiko ^b,c   Speakman, John R ^d,e   Ropert Coudert, Yan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Dynamic body acceleration; Field metabolic rate; Muscle efficiency; Seabird

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; ENERGY USE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; SEABIRD; SWIMMING; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; URIA LOMVIA;

ACCELEROMETRY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHARADRIIFORMES; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVALUATION; FLYING; ISOTOPE LABELING; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING; TEMPERATURE;

ACCELEROMETRY; ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOVEMENT; NUNAVUT; SWIMMING; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84872006671     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0919     Document Type: Article

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