Energetic consequences and ecological significance of heterothermy and social thermoregulation in striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 138-145

  Hwang, Yeen Ten ^a,c   Larivière, Serge ^a,b   Messier, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Fédération des Trappeurs Gestionnaires du Québec ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FITNESS; MAMMAL; OVERWINTERING; PHOTOPERIOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; THERMOREGULATION; TORPOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARNIVORA; FEMALE; MALE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MEPHITIDAE; PHOTOPERIOD; SEASONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE;

CARNIVORA; MEPHITIDAE; MEPHITIS; MEPHITIS MEPHITIS;

EID: 33845948667     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/509211     Document Type: Article

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