Body temperature patterns of big brown bats during winter in a building hibernaculum

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 497-503

  Halsall, Amy L ^a,b   Boyles, Justin G ^a,b   Whitaker, John O ^a,b  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

body temperature; heterothermy; hibernation; torpor

Indexed keywords

BAT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION; HIBERNATION; ROOST SITE; SKIN; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SURVIVAL; THERMOREGULATION; WINTER;

INDIANA; UNITED STATES;

EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84860582166     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/11-MAMM-A-262.1     Document Type: Article

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