Behavioural thermoregulatory tactics in lacustrine brook charr, Salvelinus fontinalis.

The need to vary body temperature to optimize physiological processes can lead to thermoregulatory behaviours, particularly in ectotherms. Despite some evidence of within-population phenotypic variation in thermal behaviour, the occurrence of alternative tactics of this behaviour is rarely explicitl...

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Main Authors: Andrea Bertolo, Marc Pépino, Julie Adams, Pierre Magnan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3072417?pdf=render