Fields of Research

Comparative physiology
Zoology
Population ecology
Animal physiology - systems
Wildlife and habitat management
Terrestrial ecology
Conservation and biodiversity
Ecological physiology
Behavioural ecology
Animal physiological ecology
Genetics
Forestry management and environment
Other biological sciences
Animal developmental and reproductive biology
Evolutionary biology
Basic pharmacology
Animal systematics and taxonomy
Freshwater ecology
Landscape ecology
Invertebrate biology
Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy
Animal neurobiology
Animal structure and function
Animal cell and molecular biology
Medical physiology
Veterinary pharmacology
Animal physiology - biophysics
Developmental genetics (incl. sex determination)
Health promotion
Cell development, proliferation and death
Biogeography and phylogeography
Australian history
Ecosystem function
Medical genetics (excl. cancer genetics)
Evolution of developmental systems
Veterinary immunology
Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
Biological oceanography
Oenology and viticulture
Gene expression (incl. microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
Pollution and contamination
Animal behaviour
Climate change impacts and adaptation
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental knowledges
Veterinary bacteriology
Chemical oceanography
Genetic immunology
Animal reproduction and breeding
Biological adaptation
Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
Veterinary epidemiology

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
Terrestrial biodiversity
Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences
Other environmental management
Assessment and management of freshwater ecosystems
Assessment and management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystems
Other education and training
Fresh, ground and surface water biodiversity
Assessment and management of benthic marine ecosystems
Softwood plantations
Climate change adaptation measures (excl. ecosystem)
Other health
Climate variability (excl. social impacts)
Expanding knowledge in the health sciences
Other culture and society
Assessment and management of coastal and estuarine ecosystems
Ecosystem adaptation to climate change
Biodiversity in Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments
Measurement and assessment of marine water quality and condition

Career Best Publications

Cooling rates and body temperature regulation of hibernating echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus); The Journal of Experimental Biology
Diving behaviour, dive cycles and aerobic dive limit in the platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A
Energetics of foraging and locomotion in the platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus; Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology
Field energetics of free-living, lactating and non-lactating echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus); Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A
Rewarming rates and thermogenesis in hibernating echidnas; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
Seasonal variations in reproductive hormones in free-ranging echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus): Interaction between reproduction and hibernation; General and Comparative Endocrinology
Spatial ecology of a ubiquitous Australian anteater, the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus); Journal of Mammalogy
The echidna manifests typical characteristics of rapid eye movement sleep; Neuroscience Letters
The timing of hibernation in Tasmanian echidnas: why do they do it when they do?; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B

Research Publications

'J'étais convaincu qu'il dormait'. European views of a unique Australian mammal; Rediscovering Recherche Bay
A case based approach to pharmacology teaching: the local experience; Proceedings of the 7th National Forum on Prevocational Medical Education
A Field Study of Wild Echidna Responses to Conspecific Odour; Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 14
About a bout: what happens in a single hibernation cycle?; Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Activity patterns and sharing of time and space of platypuses, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, in a subalpine Tasmanian lake; Journal of Mammalogy
Activity patterns of Tasmanian echidnas; Monotreme III
Adaptations to the Cold; University of New England Press
Aerobic dive limit and the organisation of the dive cycle in the platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus; Sixth International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Antagonism of some cyclohexamine-based drug combinations used for chemical restraint of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina); Australian Veterinary Journal
Behaviour and ecology of monotremes; Neurobiology of Monotremes
Behaviour, body temperature, and hibernation in Tasmanian echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus); Life in the Cold: Evolution, Mechanisms, Adaptation, and Application
Beyond the disease: is Toxoplasma gondii infection causing population declines in the eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus)?; International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
Body temperature as an indicator of egg-laying in the echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus; Journal of Thermal Biology
Book review: Paradoxical Platypus; Hobnobbing with Duckbills
Breathing during hibernation in the echidna; International Symposium on Animal Physiology
Can an ancestral condition for milk oligosaccharides be determined? Evidence from the Tasmanian echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus); Glycobiology
Chemical Composition of Odorous Secretions in the Tasmanian Short-Beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus); Chemical Senses
Chemical Cues, Hibernation and Reproduction in Female Short-Beaked Echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus): Implications for Sexual Conflict; Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 13
Chemical restraint of Southern Elephant Seals Mirounga leonina: Use of medetomidine, ketamine and atipamezole and comparison with other cyclohexamine-based combinations; British Veterinary Journal
Chemical signals in the echidna: differences between seasons, sexes, individuals and gland types; Journal of Zoology
Circadian and circannual patterns of body temperature and activity in a southern hemisphere hibernator, the Tasmanian echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus); Life in the Cold
Circadian and circannual patterns of body temperatures and activity in the Tasmanian echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus); The Australian & New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Comparing apples with apples, how to compare arousal rates in different species; Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Control of breathing during hibernation in the echidna; Sixth International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Control of breathing in the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) during hibernation; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A
Cool sex? Hibernation and reproduction overlap in the Echidna; PLoS One
Cooling rates and body temperature regulation of hibernating echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus); The Journal of Experimental Biology
Cooling, rewarming and thermogenesis in hibernating echidnas; A Memorial Symposium for Russell V. Baudinette
Current research on the platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus in Tasmania: Abstracts from the 1999 'Tasmanian Platypus Workshop'; Australian Mammalogy
Daily and seasonal patterns of activity in the echidna; XXV IEC Satellite Symposium
Descriptive study of the diaphragm and lungs in the short-nosed echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus (Mammalia : Monotremata); Journal of Morphology
Development of microsatellite markers for the short-beaked echidna using three different approaches; Australian Journal of Zoology
Devil declines and catastrophic cascades: is mesopredator release of feral cats inhibiting recovery of the eastern quoll?; PLoS ONE
Diet of the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) in the Tasmanian Southern Midlands; Australian Mammalogy
Diving behaviour and energetics in breeding little penguins (Eudyptula minor); Journal of Zoology
Diving behaviour, dive cycles and aerobic dive limit in the platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A
Does leptin signal adiposity in the egg-laying mammal, Tachyglossus aculeatus?; General and Comparative Endocrinology: An International Journal
Echidna reproduction and growth: What we currently know (or don't); Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry 20th Annual Conference
Echidna venom gland transcriptome provides insights into the evolution of monotreme venom; PLoS One
Energetics meets sexual conflict: the phenology of hibernation in Tasmanian echidnas; Functional Ecology
Energetics of foraging and locomotion in the platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus; Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology
Energy homeostasis in monotremes; Frontiers in Neuroscience
Energy requirements for different activities, including the cost of foraging, in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus); Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Evidence of rapid population decline of the eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus) in Tasmania; Australian Mammalogy
Exercise intolerance in Kearns-Sayre syndrome; Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
Family Tachyglossidae (Echidnas); Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Monotremes and Marsupials
Field energetics of free-living, lactating and non-lactating echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus); Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A
Field energetics of free-living, lactating and non-lactating echidnas Tachyglossus aculeatus; Sixth International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Fluctuations in oxygen influence facultative endothermy in bumblebees; Journal of Experimental Biology
Frozen embryos? Torpor during pregnancy in the Tasmanian short-beaked echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus; General and Comparative Endocrinology: An International Journal
Hibernation in monotremes: a review; Hypometabolism in Animals
Hibernation in the echidna: not an adaptation to cold?; Adaptations to the Cold.
Hibernation in the echidna: not an adaptation to cold?; 10th International Hibernation Symposium
Identification and functional characterization of a novel monotreme-specific antibacterial protein expressed during lactation; PLoS-One
Identification of desmostanol as a novel vertebrate sterol in short-beaked echidna secretions; Australian Mammalogy
Influence of habitat on home-range size in the short-beaked echidna; Australian Journal of Zoology
Interaction of hibernation and male reproductive function in wild Tasmanian echidnas Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus; Journal of Mammalogy
Latrine use by the short-beaked echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus; Australian Mammalogy
Learning physiology from cardiac surgery patients; American Journal of Physiology (Advances in Physiology Education)
Mammals; The Library at the End of the World: Natural Science and its Illustrators
Maternal care in the Tasmanian echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus); Australian Journal of Zoology
Mechanisms of climate-change-induced species decline: spatial, temporal and long-term variation in the diet of an endangered marsupial carnivore, the eastern quoll; Wildlife Research
Monotreme Biology; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A
Monotreme IGF2 expression and ancestral origin of genomic imprinting; Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular Development & Evolution)
Monotreme lactation protein Is highly expressed in monotreme milk and provides antimicrobial protection; Genome Biology and Evolution
Non-shivering thermogenesis in marsupials: absnece of thermogenic response to 3-adrenergic agonists; 12th International Hibernation Symposium
Nonshivering thermogenesis in marsupials: Absence of thermogenic response to beta 3-adrenergic agonists; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Observations of breeding behaviour and possible infanticide in a wild population of Tasmanian echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus); Australian Mammalogy
Observations on breeding behaviour in the Tasmanian echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus); 17th Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Observations on breeding behaviour in the Tasmanian echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus); Hibernation Symposium
Paradoxical sleep in the echidna; World Federation of Sleep Research Societies
Patterns of hibernation of echidnas in Tasmania; Life in the Cold
Patterns of hibernation of echidnas in Tasmania; Hibernation Symposium
Phylogenetic significance of mole rat sleep; Sleep
Platypus burrow temperatures; Monotreme III
Platypus burrow temperatures at a subalpine Tasmanian lake; Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales
Platypus predation has differential effects on aquatic invertebrates in contrasting stream and lake ecosystems; Scientific Reports
Pregnancy limits lung function during exercise and depresses metabolic rate in the skink Tiliqua nigrolutea; Journal of Experimental Biology
Reexamining echidna physiology: the big picture for Tachyglossus aculeatus acanthion; Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
Reproduction, growth and dispersal of young in Tasmanian echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus); Monotreme III
Reproductive strategies of the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus): is there evidence for sperm competition?; International Symposium of Sperm Competition and Reproductive Strategies
Reproductive strategies of the short-beaked echidna - a review with new data from a long-term study on the Tasmanian subspecies (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus) ; Australian Journal of Zoology
Rewarming rates and thermogenesis in hibernating echidnas; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
Rewarming rates of two large hibernators: Comparison of a monotreme and a eutherian ; Journal of Thermal Biology
Seasonal variation in activity, body temperature, plasma proteins and haematology in free ranging active and hibernating Tasmanian echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus); 12th Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Seasonal variations in haematology and blood viscosity in free ranging Tasmanian echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus); 10th International Hibernation Symposium
Seasonal variations in reproductive hormones in free-ranging echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus): Interaction between reproduction and hibernation; General and Comparative Endocrinology
Seasonal variations in thyroid hormone levels in free-living echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus); General and Comparative Endocrinology
Sex and Seasonality: Reproduction in the Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus); Living in a Seasonal World
Sleep in the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus); Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Spatial ecology of a ubiquitous Australian anteater, the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus); Journal of Mammalogy
Spurs, sexual dimorphism and reproductive maturity in Tasmanian echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus); Australian Mammalogy
Testing the role of climate change in species decline: is the eastern quoll a victim of a change in the weather?; PLoS ONE
The annual cycle of Tasmanian echidnas; Monotreme III
The echidna manifests typical characteristics of rapid eye movement sleep; Neuroscience Letters
The effectiveness of hair traps for surveying mammals: results of a study in sandstone caves in the Tasmanian southern midlands ; Australian Mammalogy
The effects of sex, season, and hibernation on haematology and blood viscosity of free-ranging echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus); Canadian Journal of Zoology
The evolution of sleep in mammals: the significance of the dreams of monotremes; 12th Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
The life history of an egg-laying mammal, the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus); Ecoscience
The life history of an egg-laying mammal, the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus); International Mammalogical Congress
The timing of hibernation in Tasmanian echidnas: why do they do it when they do?; Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
The timing of hibernation in Tasmanian echidnas: why do they do it when they do?; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B
The use of dataloggers to determine behavioural activity in the platypus (Ornithorynchus anatinus); Australia and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
The use of temperature loggers to monitor tree hollow use by mammals; Ecological Management and Restoration
Thermoenergetics of pre-moulting and moulting kookaburras (Dacelo novaeguineae): they're laughing; Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology
Thermoregulation and ventilation in the tawny frogmouth, Podargus strigoides: a low-metabolic avian species; Australian Journal of Zoology
Thermoregulatory, metabolic and ventilatory physiology of the eastern barred bandicoot (Parameles gunnii); Australian Journal of Zoology
Timing of hibernation and reproduction in Tasmanian echidnas; Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry 20th Annual Conference
To breed or not to breed some observations on breeding behaviour in the Tasmanian echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus); 16th Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Use of the respiratory stimulant doxapram in southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina); The Veterinary Record
Using dataloggers to investigate hibernation in echidnas; Australia and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Why do echidnas hibernate?; 13th Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry

Research Projects

2009 R1 - BoS.10 Biology of Spermatozoa; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Beyond the Remnant: Local and Landscape Level Factors that Influence the Remnant Use and Persistence of Bats in the Landscape; Ecological Society of Australia Limited (ESAI)
Beyond the Remnant: The Influence of Local and Landscape Level Factors on Forest Dwelling Bats; Australian Wildlife Society (AWSoc)
Beyond the Remnant: The Influence of Local and Landscape Level Factors on Forest Dwelling Bats; Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (RZSNSW)
Beyond the Remnant: The Influence of Local and Landscape Level Factors on the Remnant Use and Persistence of Bats in the Landscape; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Beyond the Remnant: The Influence of Local and Landscape Level Factors on the Remnant Use and Persistence of Bats in the Landscape; Forest Practices Authority (FPA)
Blood viscosity, thyroid function, and seasonal changes in plasma proteins in the echidna; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Contribution of Forest Remnants to the Persistence of Insectivorous Bats in the Landscape: Local and Landscape Level Factors that Affect their Use; Norman Wettenhall Foundation (NWF)
Contribution of Forest Remnants to the Persistence of Insectivorous Bats in the Landscape: Local and Landscape Level Factors that Affect their Use; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Development of an improved oxygen content analyser; Clive & Vera Ramaciotti Foundation (CVRF)
Development of Molecular Techniques for Determining Kinship and Structure of Echidna Populations; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Development of Thermoregulation in the Echidna, and the Energetics of Hibernation; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Distribution, Population Structure and Condition of Platypus in the Plenty River Catchment; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Does cool sex save energy? The energetics of echidna reproduction. ; National Geographic Society (NGS)
Drought, Disease or Destiny? Identifying Causes of Decline of the Eastern Quoll; Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE)
Drought, Disease or Destiny? Identifying Causes of Decline of the Eastern Quoll; Australian Wildlife Society (AWSoc)
Drought, Disease or Destiny? Identifying Causes of Decline of the Eastern Quoll; Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (RZSNSW)
Drought, Disease or Destiny? Identifying Causes of Decline of the Eastern Quoll; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Drought, Disease or Destiny? Identifying Causes of Decline of the Eastern Quoll; Wildlife Disease Association - Australasian section (WDAA)
Drought, disease or destiny? Identifying the causes of decline of the eastern quoll ; Norman Wettenhall Foundation (NWF)
Echidna Energetics: Life History and Hibernation; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Equipment Support for Project - Value of Forest Remnants to Microchiropteran Bats; IDEA WILD (IDEAWILD)
Equipment Support for Value of Forest Remnants to Microchiropteran Bats; Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (MBZSCF)
Evolution and Ecology of Mating Systems: Insights from the Echidna; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Fever, the acute phase response and thermogenesis in marsupials and monotremes; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Habitat Use, Diet, Home Range and Population Structure of the Short-Beaked Echidna; National Geographic Society (NGS)
Hibernation and Reproductive Strategies of the Echidna; National Geographic Society (NGS)
Hibernation, Hormones and Reproduction in Echidnas; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
June 2011: The 57th Scientific Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society, a joint meeting with the American Society of Mammalogists; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Key threats to eastern quolls (Dasyurus Viverrinus); Foundation For National Parks and Wildlife (FNPW)
Love stinks: Chemical ecology, individual variation and mating behaviour in the echidna; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Love Stinks: Pheromone mating behaviour and individuality in the echidna; Trust of M.A. Ingram (INGRAM)
Monotreme energetics.; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Physiological correlates of activity and heterothermy in the echidna; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Platypus energetics: field and laboratory studies.; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Red cell function in the echidna.; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Reproductive Ecology of the Eastern Long-beaked Echidna; Australia and Pacific Science Foundation (APSF)
Reproductive Strategies and Kinship in Echidna Populations: A Molecular Approach; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Respiration, sleep and the physiology of hibernation in the echidna; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Spatial and Temporal Variation in Declining Eastern Quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus) Populations in Tasmania; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Spurred to Breed? The Crural Gland System and Monotreme Reproduction; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
The Novel Reproductive Strategies of an Egg Laying Mammal; National Geographic Society (NGS)
The physiology and pathophysiology of gas exchange in fetal development and exercise; Clive & Vera Ramaciotti Foundation (CVRF)
The Physiology of Hibernation, Heterothermia and Torpor (with special reference to the Echidna, Tachyglossus Aculeatus); Australian Research Council (ARC)
The Relationship between Hibernation and Reproduction in the Tasmanian Echidna; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
The Unusual Reproductive Behaviour of Tasmanian Echidnas; Australian Geographic Society (AGS)
The Value of Forest Remnants to Microchiropteran Bats; Trust of M.A. Ingram (INGRAM)
The Value of Forest Remnants to Microchiropteran Bats; Bat Conservation International (BAT)
Understanding Energy Flow Through Ecosystems: an Ant-centric Approach to Ecosystem Health and Productivity; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
What's in a Smell? The Secret World of Pheromones in Australian Mammals; Trust of M.A. Ingram (INGRAM)
Research Funding for Rachelle Olsson-Herrin

Research Candidate Supervision

Acid-Base Homeostasis and Myocardial and Cerebral Preservation During and After Induced Hypothermia.
Aggression as a Personality Trait in Egernia whitii- Mechanisms and Outcomes
Anaesthesia of southern Elephant Seals
Breeding Biology and Behaviour of the Forest Raven Corvus tasmanicus in Southern Tasmania
Chemical Communication for Reproduction in the Tasmanian Short-Beaked Echidna, Tachyglossus Aculeatus Setosus
Diet, Spatial Ecology and Energetics of Echidnas- the Significance of Habitat and Seasonal Variation
Ecological energentics and reproduction in the common ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Marsupialia- Phalangeroidea)
ENERGETICS AND FORAGING BEHAVIOUR OF THE PLATYPUS
Environmental physiology of the eastern quoll in subalpine Tasmania
Immunology of platypus and echidna "Humoral immunity of monotremes"
Maternal Effects on Offspring Fitness in Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii- Selective Advantages and Physiological Mechanisms
Mating system - behavioural ecology of the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
Measuring and Understanding Physiological Stress in Abalone- Developing Novel and Existing Technologies to Improve Current Farming, Harvesting & Live Exporting Procedures
Optimizing Reproduction in the Tasmanian Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus- the Influence of an Obligatory Hibernation Period and Intense Sexual Conflict
Population Decline in Eastern Quolls
Reproduction and Feeding Ecology of Long-Beaked Echidna
Spatial knowledge in virtual environments
The Effectiveness of the Multi-Spatial Scale Approach to Forest Management- A Case Study of Tasmanian Bats
The Effects of Oxygen and Temperature on the Physiology of Hatching Stage Atlantic Salmon
The Shy Albatross (Thalassarche cauta)- Population Trends, Environmental and Anthropogenic Drivers, and the Future for Management and Conservation
Thermoregulation in the South American Grey Short-tailed Opossum, Mondelphis domestica- The effects of ambient temperature, bacterial endotoxin and hypoxia on behavioural and autonomic body temperature control