Are tropical small mammals physiologically vulnerable to Arrhenius effects and climate change?

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-45

  Lovegrove, Barry G ^a   Canale, Cindy ^a   Levesque, Danielle ^a   Fluch, Gerhard ^b   Řeháková Petrů, Milada ^c,d   Ruf, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c Zoo Decin   (Czech Republic)

^d Tarsius os   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HIBERNATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SMALL MAMMAL; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY SIZE; CHEIROGALEIDAE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; INSECTIVORA; MADAGASCAR; MALE; PHILIPPINES; PHYSIOLOGY; TARSIIFORM; TEMPERATURE; TORPOR; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; CHEIROGALEIDAE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FEMALE; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; INSECTIVORA; MADAGASCAR; MALE; PHILIPPINES; TARSIIDAE; TEMPERATURE; TORPOR; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84886086452     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/673313     Document Type: Article

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