Direct impacts of climatic warming on heat stress in endothermic species: Seabirds as bioindicators of changing thermoregulatory constraints

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 121-136

  Oswald, Stephen A ^a   Arnold, Jennifer M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Direct effects of climate; Physiology; Seabirds; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEA; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84868220290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4877.2012.00287.x     Document Type: Review

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