Thermoregulatory Physiology of Australian Birds

Birds live an energetically-expensive lifestyle as they are mostly small, diurnal and use flight. However they are long-lived, dominate most Australian environments and survive successfully in harsh and highly-variable conditions. Despite these contradictions little is known about the mechanisms Aus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Douglas, Tegan, Cooper, Christine, Withers, P., Davies, Stephen
Format: Conference Paper
Published: ANZSCPB 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4565