Bat flight with bad wings: Is flight metabolism affected by damaged wings?

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1516-1521

  Voigt, Christian C ^a,b  

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

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Energetics; White Nose Syndrome; Wing Damage

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BAT; BODY WEIGHT; FLYING; FORELIMB; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INJURY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY WEIGHT; CHIROPTERA; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; WING;

CHIROPTERA; FUNGI; GEOMYCES; MYOTIS ALBESCENS;

EID: 84876099647     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.079509     Document Type: Article

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