Hibernation and overwinter body temperatures in free-ranging thirteen-lined ground squirrels, ictidomys tridecemlineatus

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 396-409

  Kisser, Brooke ^a,b   Goodwin, H Thomas ^a  

^a ANDREWS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Biology Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; HIBERNATION; HOME RANGE; JUVENILE; OVERWINTERING; RODENT; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS TRIDECEMLINEATUS;

EID: 84859379631     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-167.2.396     Document Type: Article

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