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How to keep cool in a hot desert: Torpor in two species of free-ranging bats in summer

Small insectivorous tree-roosting bats are among the most taxonomically diverse group of mammals in Australia's desert, yet little is known about their thermal physiology, torpor patterns and roosting ecology, especially during summer. We used temperature-telemetry to quantify and compare therm...

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Autores principales: Bondarenco, Artiom, Körtner, Gerhard, Geiser, Fritz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5079220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28349087
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23328940.2016.1214334