Exogenous passive heating during torpor arousal in free-ranging rock elephant shrews, Elephantulus myurus

Oecologia

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 307-314

  Mzilikazi, Nomakwezi ^a   Lovegrove, Barry G ^a   Ribble, David O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATAL PIETERMARITZBURG   (South Africa)

^b TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterothermy; Torpor setpoint; Unpredictable environments

Indexed keywords

SMALL MAMMAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION; TORPOR;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTULUS; ELEPHANTULUS MYURUS; MAMMALIA; SORICIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036941924     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1052-z     Document Type: Article

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