Cool running: Locomotor performance at low body temperature in mammals

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 868-870

  Rojas, A Daniella ^a   Körtner, Gerhard ^a   Geiser, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Lizard; Marsupial; Running speed; Torpor

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; LOCOMOTION; MARSUPIAL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TORPOR; VULNERABILITY; WILD POPULATION;

MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84866702650     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0269     Document Type: Article

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