Detecting spring after a long winter: Coma or slow vigilance in cold,hypoxic turtles?

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Madsen, Jesper G ^a   Wang, Tobias ^a   Beedholm, Kristian ^a   Madsen, Peter T ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coma; Evoked potential; Freshwater turtles; Hibernation; Hypoxia; Responsiveness

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HIBERNATION; METABOLISM; OVERWINTERING; OXYGEN; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPRING (SEASON); TURTLE; VIGILANCE;

ICE; OXYGEN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; COMA; EVOKED RESPONSE; FREEZING; FRESHWATER TURTLES; HIBERNATION; HYPOXIA; LIGHT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSIVENESS; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TURTLE;

COMA; EVOKED POTENTIAL; FRESHWATER TURTLES; HIBERNATION; HYPOXIA; RESPONSIVENESS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; COLD TEMPERATURE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FREEZING; HIBERNATION; ICE; LIGHT; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

EID: 84891960897     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0602     Document Type: Article

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