dc.creatorCanals Lambarri, Mauricio
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-20T14:32:25Z
dc.date.available2018-12-20T14:32:25Z
dc.date.created2018-12-20T14:32:25Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.identifierBiological Research, Volumen 31, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 367-374
dc.identifier07169760
dc.identifierhttp://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/156386
dc.description.abstractOne of the most representative cases in which the relation individual-environment is evident is the heat exchange between animals and their physical environment. Based on the physical laws regulating heat exchange and on the geometrical relationships between areas and volumes, I show in this articles some strategies for avoiding heat loss used by small animals. The article is organized in four sections. The introduction deals with the laws of radiation, conduction, convection and evaporation, and how they constraint the strategies for avoiding heat loss. Next, how these strategies are related to the larger area of small animals (with regard to their volume). The remaining sections refer to some aspects of the thermal ecology of both exothermic and endothermic animals, based on Chilean examples. Emphasis is place on the responses to heat exhibited by bugs (exothermic animals), which may select substrate temperatures and use the thermal key for host attraction, and on the huddling behavi
dc.languageen
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Chile
dc.sourceBiological Research
dc.subjectEndothermy
dc.subjectExothermy
dc.subjectHeat exchange
dc.subjectHuddling
dc.subjectThermal ecology
dc.titleThermal ecology of small animals
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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