Printed in Great Britain BODY WEIGHT AND THE ENERGETICS OF TEMPERATURE REGULATION

The recent rebirth of interest in the 200-year-old field of homoiothermic energetics may be dated from three papers published in 1950 by Scholander, Irving and col-leagues. These papers furnished many data and a theoretical analysis of the energetics of temperature regulation in tropical and arctic...

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Main Author: K. Mcnab
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1970
Subjects:
Arctic
Scholander
Arctic birds
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.540.6320
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/53/2/329.full.pdf
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Summary:The recent rebirth of interest in the 200-year-old field of homoiothermic energetics may be dated from three papers published in 1950 by Scholander, Irving and col-leagues. These papers furnished many data and a theoretical analysis of the energetics of temperature regulation in tropical and arctic birds and mammals. A massive body

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