Basal rate of metabolism and temperature
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Francisco Bozinovic; Luis C. Contreras
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Article
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1990
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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We studied the energetics of two herbivorous desert rodents from South America. The two species had slightly lower basal metabolic rates, lower thermal conductances, and higher temperature differentials than those expected from their body mass. Mass-independent basal rates of metabolism were higher