Living in a shallow burrow under a rock: Gas exchange and water loss in an Australian scorpion

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 280-286

  Woodman, James D ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Gas exchange; Respirometry; Temperature; Underground burrow

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENT; FOREST; GAS EXCHANGE; HABITAT; HUMIDITY; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; RESPIROMETRY; ROCK; SCORPION; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER LOSS;

ARTHROPODA; SCORPIONES; URODACIDAE; URODACUS; URODACUS ARMATUS; URODACUS YASCHENKOI;

EID: 44649171481     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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