Thermoregulatory responses of Australian birds to environmental challenges
Four sedentary, insectivorous, Australian passerines (White-browed Babbler, Rufous Treecreeper, Western Yellow Robin, and Australian Magpie) meet energetic requirements under challenging environmental conditions without using mechanisms such as torpor. Instead at low ambient temperature they maintai...
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| author | Douglas, Tegan Klair |
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| description | Four sedentary, insectivorous, Australian passerines (White-browed Babbler, Rufous Treecreeper, Western Yellow Robin, and Australian Magpie) meet energetic requirements under challenging environmental conditions without using mechanisms such as torpor. Instead at low ambient temperature they maintain body temperature just below normothermia by increasing metabolic rate and lowering thermal conductance, a typical endothermic response. Free-ranging birds utilise behavioural strategies like communal roosting and sheltered roost sites to aid thermoregulation, but these are not essential to maintain homeothermy. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-596712017-12-19T00:55:28Z Thermoregulatory responses of Australian birds to environmental challenges Douglas, Tegan Klair Four sedentary, insectivorous, Australian passerines (White-browed Babbler, Rufous Treecreeper, Western Yellow Robin, and Australian Magpie) meet energetic requirements under challenging environmental conditions without using mechanisms such as torpor. Instead at low ambient temperature they maintain body temperature just below normothermia by increasing metabolic rate and lowering thermal conductance, a typical endothermic response. Free-ranging birds utilise behavioural strategies like communal roosting and sheltered roost sites to aid thermoregulation, but these are not essential to maintain homeothermy. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/59671 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Douglas, Tegan Klair Thermoregulatory responses of Australian birds to environmental challenges |
| title | Thermoregulatory responses of Australian birds to environmental challenges |
| title_full | Thermoregulatory responses of Australian birds to environmental challenges |
| title_fullStr | Thermoregulatory responses of Australian birds to environmental challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thermoregulatory responses of Australian birds to environmental challenges |
| title_short | Thermoregulatory responses of Australian birds to environmental challenges |
| title_sort | thermoregulatory responses of australian birds to environmental challenges |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/59671 |