City-Scale Expansion of Human Thermoregulatory Costs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Hill, Richard W ^a   Muhich, Timothy E ^a   Humphries, Murray M ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CITY; CLIMATE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY COST; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CITIES; CLOTHING; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; MALE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TEMPERATURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885444674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076238     Document Type: Article

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