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Metabolic rates of seals and whales

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Published1986
Citations206
References53

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References (53)

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1983 • 5,648 citations

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1981 • 721 citations

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1980 • 487 citations

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1977 • 383 citations

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1982 • 355 citations

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1982 • 291 citations

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1978 • 288 citations

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1983 • 265 citations

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1975 • 251 citations

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1983 • 241 citations

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1975 • 207 citations

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1939 • 190 citations

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1983 • 184 citations

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1983 • 180 citations

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1976 • 176 citations

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1976 • 174 citations

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1957 • 169 citations

The respiration of the porpoise, tursiops truncatus

1941 • 154 citations

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1973 • 140 citations

Respiratory adaptations in diving mammals

1983 • 133 citations

A distribution must be made between the ontogeny the phylogeny of metabolism in order to understand the mass exponent of energy metabolism

1984 • 131 citations

Marine mammals and fisheries

1985 • 121 citations

Free and Forced Diving in Birds

1981 • 116 citations

THE ENERGETICS OF HARBOR SEALS IN AIR AND IN WATER WITH SPECIAL CONSIDERATION OF SEASONAL CHANGES

1959 • 115 citations

On the temperature and metabolism of the seal during diving

1942 • 105 citations

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1935 • 102 citations

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1983 • 101 citations

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1979 • 83 citations

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1983 • 78 citations

Temperature regulation in freely diving harp seals (Phoca groenlandica)

1979 • 75 citations

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1986 • 69 citations

Fish prey of the Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella at South Georgia

1983 • 69 citations

Growth in Northwest Atlantic Harp seals Phoca groenlandica

1981 • 67 citations

Feeding rates of cetacea

1969 • 64 citations

Metabolizable energy requirements for maintenance and faecal and urinary losses of juvenile harp seals (Phoca groenlandica)

1984 • 63 citations

Energy requirements for maintenance and faecal and urinary losses of the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus)

1984 • 61 citations

Body temperature and heat exchange in the hawaiian spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris

1976 • 56 citations

Intrinsic rate of increase, body size, and specific metabolic rate in marine mammals

1984 • 49 citations

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1972 • 44 citations

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1969 • 38 citations

The feed intake and heat production of the young black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus)

1970 • 36 citations

The food requirements of whales in the southern hemisphere

1979 • 33 citations

Minimal oxygen consumption in the female rat, some new definitions and measurements

1970 • 31 citations

Production and respiration in animal communities

1979 • 24 citations

Air temperature and direct partitional calorimetry of the California sea lion (Zalophus Californianus)

1976 • 23 citations

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1969 • 22 citations

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1980 • 15 citations

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1964 • 10 citations

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