Physiological and behavioural responses of a small heterothermic mammal to fire stimuli

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 151, Issue , 2015, Pages 617-622

  Stawski, Clare ^a   Matthews, Jaya K ^a   Körtner, Gerhard ^a   Geiser, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ash; Charcoal; Marsupial; Sminthopsis crassicaudata; Smoke; Torpor

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; SMOKE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASH; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FEMALE; FIRE; FOOD; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HETEROTHERMIC MAMMAL; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMINTHOPSIS CRASSICAUDATA; SMOKE; STIMULUS; SURVIVAL; TORPOR; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION; FOOD DEPRIVATION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHARCOAL; CUES; FEMALE; FIRES; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MARSUPIALIA; PHOTOPERIOD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SMOKE; TORPOR;

EID: 84941285687     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.09.002     Document Type: Article

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