Do metabolic responses to solar radiation scale directly with intensity of irradiance?

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 2115-2121

  Walsberg, Glenn E ^a   Tracy, Randall L ^a   Hoffman, Ty C M ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metabolic heat production; Phodopus sungorus; Respiratory quotient; Siberian hamster; Solar heat gain; Sunlight; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HAMSTER; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHODOPUS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION; WIND;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CRICETINAE; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHODOPUS; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA; PHODOPUS; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

EID: 0031213552     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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