Conversion efficiency of flight power is low, but increases with flight speed in the migratory bat Pipistrellus nathusii ...
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The efficiency with which flying animals convert metabolic power to mechanical power dictates an individual's flight behaviour and energy requirements. Despite the significance of this parameter, we lack empirical data on conversion efficiency...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.13485826 2024-09-30T14:41:25+00:00 Conversion efficiency of flight power is low, but increases with flight speed in the migratory bat Pipistrellus nathusii ... Currie, Shannon E. Johansson, L. Christoffer Aumont, Cedric Voigt, Christian C. Hedenström, Anders 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13485826 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13485826 unknown Zenodo hash://md5/8fc0977e6dba1326eb9cdc09755770fe hash://sha256/15f59a013b7c6fb783d9d4c6d4288fe8ffdeb1abe448aa452f2077ef16323fa8 zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/N4TS8T94 https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/N4TS8T94 https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/1279cbfbd54fd6788d7ae7738ac2eaa3!/b201128-203592 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 hash://md5/8fc0977e6dba1326eb9cdc09755770fe hash://sha256/15f59a013b7c6fb783d9d4c6d4288fe8ffdeb1abe448aa452f2077ef16323fa8 zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/N4TS8T94 https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/N4TS8T94 https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/1279cbfbd54fd6788d7ae7738ac2eaa3!/b201128-203592 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1410543 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13485827 Biodiversity Mammalia Chiroptera Chordata Animalia bats bat JournalArticle ScholarlyArticle article-journal 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1348582610.5281/zenodo.141054310.5281/zenodo.13485827 2024-09-02T10:17:21Z (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The efficiency with which flying animals convert metabolic power to mechanical power dictates an individual's flight behaviour and energy requirements. Despite the significance of this parameter, we lack empirical data on conversion efficiency for most species as in vivo measurements are notoriously difficult to obtain. Furthermore, conversion efficiency is often assumed to be constant across flight speeds, even though the components driving flight power are speed-dependent. We show, through direct measurements of metabolic and aerodynamic power, that conversion efficiency in the migratory bat ( Pipistrellus nathusii ) increases from 7.0 to 10.4% with flight speed. Our findings suggest that peak conversion efficiency in this species occurs near maximum range speed, where the cost of transport is minimized. A meta-analysis of 16 bird and 8 bat species revealed a positive scaling relationship between estimated conversion efficiency and body mass, with no ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Pipistrellus nathusii DataCite |
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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The efficiency with which flying animals convert metabolic power to mechanical power dictates an individual's flight behaviour and energy requirements. Despite the significance of this parameter, we lack empirical data on conversion efficiency for most species as in vivo measurements are notoriously difficult to obtain. Furthermore, conversion efficiency is often assumed to be constant across flight speeds, even though the components driving flight power are speed-dependent. We show, through direct measurements of metabolic and aerodynamic power, that conversion efficiency in the migratory bat ( Pipistrellus nathusii ) increases from 7.0 to 10.4% with flight speed. Our findings suggest that peak conversion efficiency in this species occurs near maximum range speed, where the cost of transport is minimized. A meta-analysis of 16 bird and 8 bat species revealed a positive scaling relationship between estimated conversion efficiency and body mass, with no ... |
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Conversion efficiency of flight power is low, but increases with flight speed in the migratory bat Pipistrellus nathusii ... |
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Conversion efficiency of flight power is low, but increases with flight speed in the migratory bat Pipistrellus nathusii ... |
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Conversion efficiency of flight power is low, but increases with flight speed in the migratory bat Pipistrellus nathusii ... |
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Conversion efficiency of flight power is low, but increases with flight speed in the migratory bat Pipistrellus nathusii ... |
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Conversion efficiency of flight power is low, but increases with flight speed in the migratory bat Pipistrellus nathusii ... |
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conversion efficiency of flight power is low, but increases with flight speed in the migratory bat pipistrellus nathusii ... |
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