Endothermic heat production in honeybee winter clusters

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 353-358

  Stabentheiner, Anton ^a   Pressl, Helga ^a   Papst, Thomas ^a   Hrassnigg, Norbert ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Apis; Endothermy; Heat production; Honeybee; Thermography; Thermoregulation; Winter cluster

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; COLD CLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SHIVERING; THERMOGENESIS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLD CLIMATE; SEASONS; SHIVERING; THERMOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0037259407     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00082     Document Type: Article

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