Energetics of hibernating yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-114

  Armitage, Kenneth B ^a   Blumstein, Daniel T ^b   Woods, Brett C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Body temperature; Daily mass loss; Energetics; Hibernation; Marmota flaviventris; Metabolic rate; Torpor

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY COST; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; SCIURIDAE; TIME;

ILEX COOKII; MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; MARMOTA MARMOTA; MARMOTA MONAX; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0037219210     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00219-2     Document Type: Article

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