Life with fur and without: Experimental field energetics and survival of naked meadow voles

Oecologia

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 220-224

  Kenagy, G J ^a   Pearson, O P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Energetics; Fur; Insulation; Microtus; Survival; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ENERGETICS; HAIR; RODENT; SURVIVAL;

MICROTUS CALIFORNICUS;

EID: 0033952336     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008849     Document Type: Article

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