Metabolic Expenditures of Lunge Feeding Rorquals Across Scale: Implications for the Evolution of Filter Feeding and the Limits to Maximum Body Size

Bulk-filter feeding is an energetically efficient strategy for resource acquisition and assimilation, and facilitates the maintenance of extreme body size as exemplified by baleen whales (Mysticeti) and multiple lineages of bony and cartilaginous fishes. Among mysticetes, rorqual whales (Balaenopter...

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Autores principales: Potvin, Jean, Goldbogen, Jeremy A., Shadwick, Robert E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23024769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044854

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23024769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044854

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