Coping with chaos: unpredictable food supplies intensify torpor use in an arid-zone marsupial, the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata)

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  2010

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  Die Naturwissenschaften

• Publication date

  2010-05-05

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00114-010-0670-2PMID 20442980
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