Thermal and water relations of desert beetles

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 447-460

  Cloudsley Thompson, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BEETLE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DESERT; HUMIDITY; WATER RELATIONS;

BEETLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWEATING; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BODY WATER; DESERT CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 0035199617     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140100256     Document Type: Review

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