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City-Scale Expansion of Human Thermoregulatory Costs

The physiological maintenance of a stable internal temperature by mammals and birds – the phenomenon termed homeothermy – is well known to be energetically expensive. The annual energy requirements of free-living mammals and birds are estimated to be 15–30 times higher than those of similar-size ect...

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Autores principales: Hill, Richard W., Muhich, Timothy E., Humphries, Murray M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3797062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24143181
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076238