Physiological ecology of the arctic ground squirrel: Energy metabolism, torpor, and behavioral endocrinology

• Main Author: Buck, Charles Loren
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Zoology; Ecology; Animal Physiology; Arctic; Burrows; Fairbanks; Arctic ground squirrel; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/9467

Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1998 I monitored seasonal changes in body condition and dates of immergence into and emergence from hibernation in a natural population of arctic ground squirrels (Sphermophilus parryii kennicottii) living on the North Slope of Alaska. Age and sex...