Dehydration, with and without heat, in kangaroos from mesic and arid habitats: Different thermal responses including varying patterns in heterothermy in the field and laboratory

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 177, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 797-807

  Dawson, Terence J ^a   Blaney, Cyntina E ^a   McCarron, Hugh C K ^a   Maloney, Shane K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Heterothermy; Kangaroos; Marsupials; Respiration; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DESERT CLIMATE; HEAT; MARSUPIAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMOREGULATION; WILD ANIMAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; DEHYDRATION; DESERT CLIMATE; HEAT; MACROPODIDAE;

ANIMALIA; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS GIGANTEUS; MACROPUS RUFUS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 34548785159     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-007-0176-1     Document Type: Article

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