Keeping cool: Enhanced optical reflection and radiative heat dissipation in Saharan silver ants

Science

Volumn 349, Issue 6245, 2015, Pages 298-301

  Shi, Norman Nan ^a   Tsai, Cheng Chia ^a   Camino, Fernando ^b   Bernard, Gary D ^c   Yu, Nanfang ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^d  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

^d University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; COOLING; DESERT; DISSIPATION; HEAT BALANCE; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMOREGULATION;

ANT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COOLING; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HAIR; HEAT; HEAT TOLERANCE; HEAT TRANSFER; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR RADIATION; SUMMER; SUNLIGHT; THERMOREGULATION; AFRICA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DESERT CLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS BOMBYCINUS; FORMICIDAE;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMALS; ANTS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; DESERT CLIMATE; HOT TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84937889224     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aab3564     Document Type: Article

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