Weather entrainment and multispectral diel activity rhythm of desert hamsters

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 99, Issue , 2013, Pages 62-66

  Wan, Xinrong ^a   Zhang, Xinjie ^a   Huo, Yingjun ^a   Wang, Guiming ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Humidity; Inner Mongolia; Phodopus roborovskii; Ultradian rhythm

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIEL VARIATION; ENTRAINMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PROBABILITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RODENT; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

AMBIENT AIR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HAMSTER; HUMIDITY; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERIODICITY; PROBABILITY; THERMOREGULATION; ULTRADIAN RHYTHM; WEATHER; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; CHINA; DESERT CLIMATE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRICETINAE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DESERT CLIMATE; HUMIDITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; WEATHER;

EID: 84880575283     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.06.011     Document Type: Article

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