Avian wing proportions and flight styles: first step towards predicting the flight modes of mesozoic birds.

We investigated the relationship between wing element proportions and flight mode in a dataset of living avian species to provide a framework for making basic estimates of the range of flight styles evolved by Mesozoic birds. Our results show that feather length (f(prim)) and total arm length (ta) (...

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Autores principales: Xia Wang, Alistair J McGowan, Gareth J Dyke
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/8d82b605d04949ae8fd4206261bea392
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