Design and Performance of a Wet Sponge Model for Amphibian Thermal Biology

Current Herpetology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-32

  Hasegawa, Masami ^a   Suzuki, Yoko ^a   Wada, Satoko ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Frog; Operative temperature; Wet physical model

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011265267     PISSN: 13455834     EISSN: 18811019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5358/hsj.24.27     Document Type: Article

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