Field metabolic rates of black-browed albatrosses Thalassarche melanophrys during the incubation stage

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 551-558

  Shaffer, Scott A ^a   Costa, Daniel P ^a   Weimerskirch, Henri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; INCUBATION; METABOLISM; SEABIRD;

FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; KERGUELEN; KERGUELEN ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; DIOMEDEA; DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 8744288540     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2004.03264.x     Document Type: Article

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