Behavioural thermoregulation and the relative roles of convection and radiation in a basking butterfly

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 65-71

  Barton, Madeleine ^a,c   Porter, Warren ^b   Kearney, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Basking; Behaviour; Butterfly; Convection; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASKING; BEHAVIOR THERMOREGULATION; BIOPHYSICS; BUTTERFLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLOW RATE; FORELIMB; HEAT EXCHANGE; HEAT LOSS; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE STRESS; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOREGULATION; THORAX; WIND; WING ANGLE;

BASKING; BEHAVIOUR; BUTTERFLY; CONVECTION; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BUTTERFLIES; CONVECTION; ECOSYSTEM; INFRARED RAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTURE;

EID: 84896719207     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: 18790992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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