Seasonal variations in basal metabolic rate, lower critical temperature and responses to temporary starvation in the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) from Svalbard

Polar Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 308-319

  Fuglesteg, Britt N ^a   Haga, Øyvind E ^a   Folkow, Lars P ^a   Fuglei, Eva ^b   Blix, Arnoldus Schytte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANID; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STARVATION;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; VULPES;

EID: 32844456345     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-005-0054-9     Document Type: Article

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