Metabolic, hygric and ventilatory physiology of the red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura; Marsupialia, Dasyuridae): Adaptations to aridity or arboreality?
The red-tailed phascogale is a small arboreal dasyurid marsupial that inhabits semi-arid to arid regions of Western Australia's wheat belt. Its body mass (34.7 g) is only ~15% of that predicted based on its phylogenetic position among other dasyuromorphs; we interpret this as an adaptation to i...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Urban und Fischer Verlag
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6069 |