Activity re-assignment and microclimate selection of free-living Arabian oryx: Responses that could minimise the effects of climate change on homeostasis?

Zoology

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 411-416

  Hetem, Robyn S ^a   Strauss, W Maartin ^a,b,c   Fick, Linda G ^a   Maloney, Shane K ^a,d   Meyer, Leith C R ^a   Shobrak, Mohammed ^b,e   Fuller, Andrea ^a   Mitchell, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b National Wildlife Research Center   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e TAIF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Activity pattern; Antelope; Biologging; Oryx leucoryx; Physiological plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; HEAT; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; MICROCLIMATE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MALE; MICROCLIMATE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RUMINANTS;

ANIMALIA; ARTIODACTYLA; MAMMALIA; ORYX; ORYX LEUCORYX;

EID: 84870249865     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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