Expenditure freeze: The metabolic response of small mammals to cold environments

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1326-1333

  Humphries, Murray M ^a   Boutin, Stan ^b   Thomas, Donald W ^c   Ryan, John D ^d   Selman, Colin ^e   McAdam, Andrew G ^f   Berteaux, Dominique ^g   Speakman, John R ^h  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d Trinity College Dublin   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Cost of living; Doubly labelled water; Energetics; Nests; Sciuridae; Thermoregulation; Winter; Yukon

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; ENERGY USE; LOW TEMPERATURE; METABOLISM; SMALL MAMMAL; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 28644447666     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00839.x     Document Type: Article

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