Male Weasels Decrease Activity and Energy Expenditure in Response to High Ambient Temperatures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Zub, Karol ^a   Fletcher, Quinn E ^b   Szafrańska, Paulina A ^a   Konarzewski, Marek ^a,c  

^a MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RESTING METABOLIC RATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; WEASEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSTELIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSTELIDAE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84881572374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072646     Document Type: Article

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