Adaptive thermoregulation during summer in two populations of an arid-zone passerine

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1142-1154

  Smit, B ^a   Harding, C T ^b   Hockey, P A R ^b   E McKechnie, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate change; Heat dissipation; Heterothermy; Hyperthermia; Kalahari Desert; Plocepasser mahali; South Africa; Thermoregulation; White browed Sparrow Weaver

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARID REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ORNITHOLOGY; SONGBIRD; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOREGULATION; VULNERABILITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SONGBIRD; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; PASSERIFORMES; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

KALAHARI DESERT;

EID: 84878058374     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1511.1     Document Type: Article

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