Interplay between global patterns of environmental temperature and variation in nonshivering thermogenesis of rodent species across large spatial scales

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2116-2122

  Rodríguez Serrano, Enrique ^a   Bozinovic, Francisco ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Climate; Distribution; Endotherms; Global change; Physiological ecology; Thermal tolerances

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENDOTHERMY; GLOBAL CHANGE; PHYLOGENY; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 68549090937     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01854.x     Document Type: Article

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