Size, shape, and the thermal niche of endotherms

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 19666-19672

  Porter, Warren P ^a   Kearney, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biophysical ecology; Functional traits; Lower critical temperature; Metabolic scaling; Thermoneutral zone

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BODY BUILD; BODY POSTURE; BODY SIZE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; ELEPHANT; FEMALE; HEAT EXCHANGE; METABOLIC RATE; NEOTOMA; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNECOLOGY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 73949124921     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907321106     Document Type: Article

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