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Blood Oxygen Depletion Is Independent of Dive Function in a Deep Diving Vertebrate, the Northern Elephant Seal
Although energetics is fundamental to animal ecology, traditional methods of determining metabolic rate are neither direct nor instantaneous. Recently, continuous blood oxygen (O(2)) measurements were used to assess energy expenditure in diving elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris), demonstrating...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3871621/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24376671 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083248 |