Scaling of Soaring Seabirds and Implications for Flight Abilities of Giant Pterosaurs

The flight ability of animals is restricted by the scaling effects imposed by physical and physiological factors. In comparisons of the power available from muscle and the mechanical power required to fly, it is predicted that the margin between the powers should decrease with body size and that fly...

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Autores principales: Sato, Katsufumi, Sakamoto, Kentaro Q., Watanuki, Yutaka, Takahashi, Akinori, Katsumata, Nobuhiro, Bost, Charles-André, Weimerskirch, Henri
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2670537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19401767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005400

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2670537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19401767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005400

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