Ventilated Capsule Measurements of Cutaneous Evaporation in Mourning Doves
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 89 (4) , 863-868
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1368535
Abstract
To determine the contribution of cutaneous water loss to evaporative cooling in Mourning Doves (Zenaida macroura), we used a ventilated capsule technique to mea...This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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