Snoozing through the storm: Torpor use during a natural disaster

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Nowack, Julia ^a   Rojas, A Daniella ^a   Körtner, Gerhard ^a   Geiser, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; BODY SIZE; DISASTER; ENERGY METABOLISM; HURRICANE; LOCOMOTION; MARSUPIAL; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; THERMOREGULATION; TORPOR;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTERS; ENERGY METABOLISM; LOCOMOTION; MARSUPIALIA; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SEASONS; TORPOR;

EID: 84935855851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11243     Document Type: Article

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