Food hoarding and hibernation in chipmunks and the ecological consequences of energetic flexibility
Small endotherms typically have elevated and relatively invariant rates of metabolism, but adaptations such as food hoarding and hibernation endow some species with considerable energetic flexibility in responding to resource fluctuations. I examined the interactions between resource availability, f...
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McGill University
2001
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| Online Access: | http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38068 |