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Physiological, morphological, and ecological tradeoffs influence vertical habitat use of deep-diving toothed-whales in the Bahamas

Dive capacity among toothed whales (suborder: Odontoceti) has been shown to generally increase with body mass in a relationship closely linked to the allometric scaling of metabolic rates. However, two odontocete species tagged in this study, the Blainville’s beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris and...

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Autores principales: Joyce, Trevor W., Durban, John W., Claridge, Diane E., Dunn, Charlotte A., Fearnbach, Holly, Parsons, Kim M., Andrews, Russel D., Ballance, Lisa T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5636075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29020021
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185113