Adaptive thermoregulation in endotherms may alter responses to climate change

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 676-690

  Boyles, Justin G ^a   Seebacher, Frank ^b   Smit, Ben ^a   McKechnie, Andrew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80054950708     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icr053     Document Type: Review

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