The importance of mammalian torpor for survival in a post-fire landscape

Biology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Stawski, Clare ^a   Körtner, Gerhard ^a   Nowack, Julia ^a   Geiser, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antechinus; Climate change; Fire; Marsupial; Predation; Torpor

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MARSUPIAL; PERSISTENCE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PREDATION; PREDATOR; RODENT; SURVIVAL; TORPOR; WILDFIRE;

ANTECHINUS; ANTECHINUS STUARTII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; FIRE; LONGEVITY; MARSUPIAL; NEW SOUTH WALES; PHYSIOLOGY; TORPOR;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; FIRES; LONGEVITY; MARSUPIALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; TORPOR;

EID: 84941304794     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0134     Document Type: Article

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