Skeletal correlates for body mass estimation in modern and fossil flying birds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Field, Daniel J ^a   Lynner, Colton ^a   Brown, Christian ^a   Darroch, Simon A F ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY MASS; BONE LENGTH; BONE MASS; CLADE SPECIFIC VARIABILITY; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; CORTICAL BONE; FEMUR; FLYING; FOSSIL ANIMAL; HUMERUS; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; METATARSAL BONE; NONHUMAN; PERCENT PREDICTION ERROR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKELETON; TARSOMETATARSAL JOINT;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOSSILS;

EID: 84896704312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082000     Document Type: Article

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