Assessing honeybee and wasp thermoregulation and energetics - New insights by combination of flow-through respirometry with infrared thermography

Thermochimica Acta

Volumn 534, Issue , 2012, Pages 77-86

  Stabentheiner, Anton ^a   Kovac, Helmut ^a   Hetz, Stefan K ^b   Käfer, Helmut ^a   Stabentheiner, Gabriel ^a  

^a Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energetics; Honeybee; Respirometry; Temperature; Thermography; Wasp

Indexed keywords

BODY SURFACE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENERGETICS; FLOWTHROUGH; HEAT GAINS; HONEYBEE; OPTIMISATIONS; RESPIRATORY MEASUREMENTS; RESPIROMETRY; SMALL BODIES; THERMAL LIMITS; THERMAL MAXIMA; WASP;

CARBON DIOXIDE; PROFITABILITY; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUN; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 84858449376     PISSN: 00406031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tca.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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