Quantifying torpor in small mammals non-invasively using infrared thermocouples

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 380-383

  Warnecke, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Dasyurid; Food restriction; Heterothermy; Infrared thermometer

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FUR; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING; DATA PROCESSING; DIET RESTRICTION; INFRARED THERMOCOUPLE; MARSUPIAL; NESTING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; RELIABILITY; SENSOR; SMINTHOPSIS CRASSICAUDATA; THERMOREGULATION; TORPOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DASYURIDAE; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SMINTHOPSIS CRASSICAUDATA;

EID: 84859650556     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: 18790992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Baghai S. Infrared thermometer calibration. Am. Lab. 2003, 35:7-8.
2. Bozinovic F., Munoz J.L.P., Naya D.E., Cruz-Neto A.P. Adjusting energy expenditures to energy supply: food availability regulates torpor use and organ size in the Chilean mouse-opossum Thylamys elegans. J. Comp. Physiol. B. 2007, 177:393-400.
3. Ehrhardt N., Heldmaier G., Exner C. Adaptive mechanisms during food restriction in Acomys russatus: the use of torpor for desert survival. J. Comp. Physiol. B. 2005, 175:193-200.
4. Elvert R., Heldmaier G. Cardiorespiratory and metabolic reactions during entrance into torpor in dormice Glis glis. J. Exp. Biol. 2005, 208:1373-1383.
5. Fons R., Sender S., Peters T., Jurgens K.D. Rates of rewarming, heart and respiratory rates and their significance for oxygen transport during arousal from torpor in the smallest mammal, the Etruscan shrew Suncus etruscus. J. Exp. Biol. 1997, 200:1451-1458.
6. Geiser F. Metabolic rate and body temperature reduction during hibernation and daily torpor. Annu. Rev. Physiol. 2004, 66:239-274.
7. Geiser F., Baudinette R.V. Seasonality of torpor and thermoregulation in three dasyurid marsupials. J. Comp. Physiol. B. 1987, 157:335-344.
8. Geiser F., Turbill C. Hibernation and daily torpor minimize mammalian extinctions. Naturwissenschaften 2009, 96:1235-1240.
9. Heldmaier G., Klingenspor M., Werneyer M., Lampi B.J., Brooks S.P.J., Storey K.B. Metabolic adjustments during daily torpor in the Djungarian hamster. Am. J. Physiol. 1999, 276(5):E896-E906.
10. Hiebert S.M. Seasonal differences in the response of rufous hummingbirds to food restrictions: body mass and the use of torpor. Condor 1991, 93:526-537.
11. Holloway J.C., Geiser F. Influence of torpor on daily energy expenditure of the dasyurid marsupial Sminthopsis crassicaudata. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A. 1995, 112:59-66.
12. Kondo N., Sekijima T., Kondo J., Takamatsu N., Tohya K., Ohtsu T. Circannual control of hibernation by HP complex in the brain. Cell 2006, 125(1):161-172.
13. Levesque D., Tattersall G. Seasonal torpor and normothermic energy metabolism in the Eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus). J. Comp. Physiol. B. 2010, 180:279-292.
14. Lovegrove B.G., Körtner G., Geiser F. The energetic cost of arousal from torpor in the marsupial Sminthopsis macroura: benefits of summer ambient temperature cycles. J. Comp. Physiol. B. 1999, 169:11-18.
15. Lovegrove B.G., Raman J., Perrin M.R. Daily torpor in elephant shrew (Macroscelidae: Elephantuslus spp.) in response to food deprivation. J. Comp. Physiol. B. 2001, 171:11-21.
16. McCafferty D.J. The value of infrared thermography for research on mammals: previous applications and future directions. Mammal Rev. 2007, 37(3):207-223.
17. Morton S.R. Torpor and nest-sharing in free-living Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Marsupialia) and Mus musculus (Rodentia). J. Mammal 1978, 59:569-575.
18. Munn A.J., Barboza P.S., Dehn J. Sensible heat loss from muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) feeding in winter: small calves are not at a thermal disadvantage compared with adult cows. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 2009, 82(5):455-467.
19. Munn A.J., Kern P., McAllan B.M. Coping with chaos: unpredictable food supplies intensify torpor use in an arid-zone marsupial, the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata). Naturwissenschaften 2010, 97:601-605.
20. Phillips P.K., Heath J.E. Dependency of surface temperature regulation on body size in terrestrial mammals. J. Therm. Biol. 1995, 20(3):281-289.
21. Phillips P.K., Heath J.E. Comparison of surface temperature in 13-lined ground squirrel (Spermophilus tridecimlineatus) and yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) during arousal from hibernation. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A. 2004, 138(4):451-457.
22. Warnecke L., Geiser F. The energetics of basking behaviour and torpor in a small marsupial exposed to simulated natural conditions. J. Comp. Physiol. B. 2010, 180:437-445.
23. Warnecke L., Turner J.M., Geiser F. Torpor and basking in a small arid zone marsupial. Naturwissenschaften 2008, 95:73-78.
24. Warnecke L., Withers P.C., Schleucher E., Maloney S.K. Body temperature variation in free-ranging and captive southern brown bandicoots Isoodon obesulus (Marsupialia: Peramelidae). J. Therm. Biol. 2007, 32:72-77.
25. Willis C.K.R., Goldzieher A., Geiser F. A non-invasive method for quantifying patterns of torpor and activity under semi-natural conditions. J. Therm. Biol. 2005, 30:551-556.