DJ Curtis, MA Rasmussen - Folia Primatologica, 2006 - karger.com
Non-primate mammalian activity cycles are highly variable across and within taxonomic groups. In contrast, the order Primates has historically been recognized as displaying a …
Circadian rhythms influence most of our life activities, notably getting up and going to sleep every day. The new edition of this book delves into the mechanisms surrounding how these …
Considerable research is aimed at developing predictions of ecosystem responses to climate change, focusing on the spatial scale, such as range shifts and contractions, as well …
H Burda, R Šumbera, S Begall - Subterranean rodents: news from …, 2007 - Springer
The subterranean ecotope provides its inhabitants with several advantages. Burrowing (fossorial) mammals construct or visit existing burrow systems regularly or temporarily for …
H Tian, P Yu, B Cazelles, L Xu, H Tan… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Hantavirus, a rodent-borne zoonotic pathogen, has a global distribution with 200,000 human infections diagnosed annually. In recent decades, repeated outbreaks of hantavirus …
Background The transmission of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is influenced by climatic variables. However, few studies have examined the quantitative …
In a seminal study published nearly 70 years ago, Scholander et al.(Biol Bull 99: 259–271, 1950) employed Newton's law of cooling to describe how metabolic rates (MR) in birds and …
Differences in individual locomotor activity patterns may be linked to a number of ecological factors, such as changes in ambient temperature or photoperiod. Observations on …
Subterranean rodents are characterized by limited individual mobility and patchy distribution of local populations, all of which have been related to the great evolutionary diversification of …