PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO AMBIENT TEMPERATURE MANIPULATION BY THREE SPECIES OF BATS FROM ANDEAN CLOUD FORESTS
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- 1 May 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 83 (2) , 445-457
- https://doi.org/10.1644/1545-1542(2002)083<0445:prtatm>2.0.co;2
Abstract
In this paper we test the hypothesis that bats of the Andean highlands show distinctive metabolic responses compared with bats from lowland forests.Keywords
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