dc.creatorCortés, Arturo
dc.creatorTirado, Carlos
dc.creatorRosenmann, Mario
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-20T14:26:58Z
dc.date.available2018-12-20T14:26:58Z
dc.date.created2018-12-20T14:26:58Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.identifierJournal of Thermal Biology, Volumen 28, Issue 6-7, 2018, Pages 489-495
dc.identifier03064565
dc.identifier10.1016/S0306-4565(03)00049-4
dc.identifierhttps://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/156073
dc.description.abstractChinchilla brevicaudata lives at 3500-5000 m, with high ambient temperatures during the day but cold at night. In this Andean habitat there is also low availability of food and water resources. Physiological attributes that may minimize their energetic cost as well as the water requirements are: (1) Low values of basal metabolic rate (67.2%) and thermal conductance (51.0%) compared to predicted values. (2) The aerobic metabolic expansivity was 5.1, while the calculated theoretical critical lethal temperature was extremely low (-67.8°C). (3) The energetic cost for maintenance of water balance was 85. 3% of the predicted value for xeric rodents of similar size. © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier Ltd
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Chile
dc.sourceJournal of Thermal Biology
dc.subjectBasal metabolism
dc.subjectChinchilla brevicaudata
dc.subjectEvaporative water loss
dc.subjectMaximum metabolism
dc.subjectThermal conductance
dc.titleEnergy metabolism and thermoregulation in Chinchilla brevicaudata
dc.typeArtículo de revista


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