THE TEMPORAL ORGANIZATION OF DAILY TORPOR AND HIBERNATION: CIRCADIAN AND CIRCANNUAL RHYTHMS
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Chronobiology International
- Vol. 17 (2), 103-128
- https://doi.org/10.1081/cbi-100101036
Abstract
Mammals and birds have evolved the ability to maintain a high and constant body temperature Tb over a wide range of ambient temperatures Ta using endogenous heat production. In many, especially sma...Keywords
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