evaporative water loss
Evaporative water loss, relative water economy and evaporative partitioning of a heterothermic marsupial, the monito del monte (Dromiciops gliroides)
... here evaporative water loss, economy and partitioning at ambient temperatures from 14 to 33°C for the monito del monte (Dromiciops gliroides), a microbiotheriid marsupial found only in temperate ...
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The stoichiometric approach in determining total evaporative water loss and the relationship between evaporative and non-evaporative heat loss in two resting bird species: passerine and non-passerine
... total evaporative water ...between evaporative and non-evaporative heat ...of water vapor does not affect measurement accuracy at low ambient tempera- tures, as it is in the case of ...
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Inundation and groundwater dynamics for quantification of evaporative water loss in tropical wetlands
... of evaporative water loss are inherently ...the water balance of permanent and intermittent water ...the water available for ...
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Respiratory and cutaneous evaporative water loss at high environmental temperatures in a small bird
... respiratory water loss were measured ...cutaneous water loss was stable after the chamber had reached equilibrium and only varied if the bird struggled violently for an extended period, and ...
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Waking to drink: rates of evaporative water loss determine arousal frequency in hibernating bats
... that water loss during hibernation creates the need in bats to arouse to ...total evaporative water loss, independent of metabolic rate, which directly supports the hypothesis that ...
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Cloacal evaporative cooling: a previously undescribed means of increasing evaporative water loss at higher temperatures in a desert ectotherm, the Gila monster Heloderma suspectum
... minimize loss of body ...of water in the urinary bladder might allow for water expenditure without changing plasma osmolality, regulation of cloacal EWL in Gila monsters might also be influenced by ...
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Temperature and dehydration effects on metabolism, water uptake and the partitioning between respiratory and cutaneous evaporative water loss in a terrestrial toad
... Luis Miguel Senzano* and Denis Vieira Andrade ABSTRACT Terrestrial anurans often experience fluctuations in body temperature and hydration state, which are known to influence evaporative water loss ...
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Partitioning of evaporative water loss in white winged doves: plasticity in response to short term thermal acclimation
... of evaporative water loss, O 2 consumption and CO 2 production We measured the respiratory and cutaneous components of evaporative water loss in a ...
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Sex differences in the thermoregulation and evaporative water loss of a heterothermic bat, Lasiurus cinereus, during its spring migration
... of evaporative water loss in males were consistently higher than in females at most air temperatures and rates of water loss in torpid bats were 63±6% of normothermic ...
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Flexibility in basal metabolic rate and evaporative water loss among hoopoe larks exposed to different environmental temperatures
... Tieleman and Williams (2000) produced an equation that relates BMR to body mass for 21 species of desert birds which predicts a BMR of 32.5 kJ day −1 for a lark weighing 36.6 g. Our measurement of 32.9 kJ day −1 for ...
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Respiratory Exchange and Evaporative Water Loss in the Flying Budgerigar
... In this study the energy requirements of ascending, level and descending flight at various speeds are estimated from the oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production of budgerigars ([r] ...
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Allometry of evaporative water loss in marsupials: implications of the effect of ambient relative humidity on the physiology of brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)
... respiratory water loss below that expected from the overall chamber ...respiratory water loss in this manner would reduce total water ...Cutaneous water loss will also be ...
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Water Transport in the Lateral Line Canal of the Intertidal Fish \u3ci\u3eXiphister mucosus\u3c/i\u3e (Girard 1858) and Its Significance to Evaporative Water with Preliminary Observations of the Metabolic Consequences of Water Loss
... 2 Water Transport in the Lateral Line Canal of the Intertidal Fish Xiphister mucosus (Girard 1858) and its Significance to Evaporative Water Loss ...skin, evaporative water ...
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Water Exchange in the Mantle of a Terrestrial Snail During Periods of Reduced Evaporative Loss
... Marked peaks in surface temperature following humidity change are interpreted as net gain or loss of water to the mantle.. Smaller fluctuations in surface temperature are interpreted as [r] ...
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Microbial and environmental implications for use of monolayers to reduce evaporative loss from water storages
... to water storages to reduce evaporative loss should have a negligible effect on aquatic ...on water quality was undertaken by Wixson (1966), using a mixture of the compounds hexadecanol and ...
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Estimation of soil water evaporative loss after tillage operation using the stable isotope technique
... Cumulative rainfall in the field was collected between June and September, 2009 by installing three rainfall col- lectors – two of them on the outer edges and one in the mid- dle of the field (dimension = 50 by 80 m). ...
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PERFORMANCE OF EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS WITH CHILLED WATER
... 4. Evaporative cooling 4.1 History of Evaporative cooling Originally, this process was firstly applied by humankind in Near East, where the dry and hot climate was favorable to its ...with water, ...
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Water Retention and Evaporative Properties of Landscape Mulches
... After the irrigation systems were installed and the mulch treatments were in place, the systems were operated twice at weekly intervals at each site to settle the mulch materials in the plots. Testing Procedure The ...
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Developing A Multi Water Droplets Evaporative Cooling System
... This study is focused on an evaporative cooling system built using multi water droplets approach which will be tested on different configurations. 1.2 Problem Statement Commercial cooling system in the ...
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Evaporative cooling and water balance during flight in birds
... Mediterranean, the Caribbean and the western North Atlantic (Lack, 1959; Larkin et al. 1978) and, as mentioned earlier, do not normally arrive dehydrated. It is not reasonable to explain[r] ...
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