Advantage to lower body temperatures for a small mammal (Rattus fuscipes) experiencing chronic cold

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1197-1204

  Glanville, Elsa Jane ^a   Seebacher, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

body temperature; bush rat; exercise; fur thickness; heat generation model; Rattus fuscipes; thermal acclimation

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD AIR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDOTHERMY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FOOD INTAKE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; SMALL MAMMAL; WILD POPULATION;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS FUSCIPES;

EID: 77958462203     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-A-003.1     Document Type: Article

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