Environmental conditions, rather than season, determine torpor use and temperature selection in large mouse-eared bats (Myotis myotis)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 828-840

  Wojciechowski, Michał S ^a   Jefimow, Małgorzata ^a   Tegowska, Eugenia ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bat; Daily torpor; Food availability; Heterothermy; Hibernation; Temperature selection; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; RESPIROMETRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WINTER;

MYOTIS; MYOTIS MYOTIS;

EID: 34249741021     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.06.039     Document Type: Article

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