Patterns of body temperatures: Is lizard thermoregulation chaotic?

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-5

  Bowker, Richard G ^a   Wright, Chadwick L ^b   Bowker, George E ^c  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Chaos; Lizards; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING; CHAOS THEORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC SIMILARITY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THERMOREGULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

LACERTILIA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 73149122325     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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