Torpor and basking in a small arid zone marsupial

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-78

  Warnecke, Lisa ^a   Turner, James M ^a   Geiser, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; BIOENERGETICS; EMERGENCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARSUPIAL; SOIL CRACKING; SOLAR RADIATION; TORPOR; WARMING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENERGY COST; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; SMINTHOPSIS CRASSICAUDATA; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WARMING;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MARSUPIALIA; PERIODICITY; REST; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SMINTHOPSIS; SMINTHOPSIS CRASSICAUDATA;

EID: 36649018891     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0293-4     Document Type: Article

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