Seabird Energetics
"Seabird Energetics" is a composite volume with a coherent theme. It makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the costs of breeding, the significance of which goes far beyond physiology as a brief historical perspective may illustrate. After decades of mainly anecdotal observa...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1984, 1984
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1984 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Egg formation
- 3. Energy cost of incubation to the parent bird
- 4. Parent-egg interactions: egg temperature and water loss
- 5. Eggs, yolk and embryonic growth rate
- 6. Caloric content and energetic budget of tropical seabird eggs
- 7. Metabolic responses of embryonic sea birds to temperature
- 8. Energetics of breeding Dark-rumped Petrels
- 9. Thermoregulation in adult seabirds
- 10. Energetics of free-ranging seabirds
- 11. Energetics of walking in penguins
- 12. Free-ranging energetics of penguins
- 13. Modelling the energy requirements of seabird populations
- 14. Impact of seabirds on marine resources, especially krill
- Contributors