Effect of environmental temperature on body temperature and metabolic heat production in a heterothermic rodent, Spermophilus tereticaudus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 205, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 2099-2105

  Wooden, K Mark ^a   Walsberg, Glenn E ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Heat transfer; Heterothermy; Metabolic heat production; Round tailed ground squirrel; Spermophilus tereticaudus; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENERGY METABOLISM; KINETICS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SCIURIDAE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGENESIS; ANIMALS;

SPERMOPHILUS TERETICAUDUS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; KINETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIURIDAE; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 0036023246     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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