Hydrodynamics-Based Functional Forms of Activity Metabolism: A Case for the Power-Law Polynomial Function in Animal Swimming Energetics

Anthony Papadopoulos

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004852

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Hydrodynamics-Based Functional Forms of Activity Metabolism: A Case for the Power-Law Polynomial Function in Animal Swimming Energetics

Anthony Papadopoulos

* E-mail: anthony.papadopoulos@ttu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
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Hydrodynamics-Based Functional Forms of Activity Metabolism: A Case for the Power-Law Polynomial Function in Animal Swimming Energetics

Anthony Papadopoulos

Published: March 31, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004852

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publication complement

Posted by papadopoulos1 on 03 Nov 2013 at 11:27 GMT

This article complements my 2013 publication in the Open Journal of Animal Sciences, “Relating models of activity metabolism to the metabolic efficiency of steady swimming”. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236...

No competing interests declared.

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