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List of works by Fritz Geiser

A functional nexus between photoperiod acclimation, torpor expression and somatic fatty acid composition in a heterothermic mammal.

scientific article

A new cue for torpor induction: charcoal, ash and smoke

scientific article published on January 2017

Adaptive evolution of Leptin in heterothermic bats

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Aestivation in mammals and birds

scientific article published on January 2010

Arrhenius parameters of mitochondrial membrane respiratory enzymes in relation to thermoregulation in endotherms

scientific article published on 01 January 1985

Basking and torpor in a rock-dwelling desert marsupial: survival strategies in a resource-poor environment.

scientific article published on 3 August 2007

Basking behaviour in relation to energy use and food availability in one of the smallest marsupials

scientific article published on 15 July 2010

Basking hamsters reduce resting metabolism, body temperature and energy costs during rewarming from torpor

scientific article published on 9 May 2016

Black or white? Physiological implications of roost colour and choice in a microbat

scientific article published on 17 July 2016

Body mass dependent use of hibernation: why not prolong the active season, if they can?

article by Claudia Bieber et al published 15 October 2013 in Functional Ecology

Body temperature rhythms and activity in reproductive Antechinus (Marsupialia)

scientific article published on 01 July 1995

Can bats sense smoke during deep torpor?

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Can hibernators sense and evade fires? Olfactory acuity and locomotor performance during deep torpor

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

Cold-hearted bats: uncoupling of heart rate and metabolism during torpor at subzero temperatures.

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Conserving energy during hibernation

scientific article published on 01 July 2016

Cool echidnas survive the fire

scientific article published in April 2016

Cool running: locomotor performance at low body temperature in mammals

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Daily torpor and energetics in a tropical mammal, the northern blossom-bat Macroglossus minimus (Megachiroptera)

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Daily torpor and energy expenditure in Sminthopsis macroura: interactions between food and water availability and temperature

scientific article published on 01 May 1997

Daily torpor and hibernation in birds and mammals

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Daily torpor and thermoregulation in antechinus (Marsupialia): influence of body mass, season, development, reproduction, and sex.

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Deep, prolonged torpor by pregnant, free-ranging bats

scientific article published in 2006

Development of Thermoregulation and Torpor in the Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel Spermophilus saturatus

scientific article published on 28 August 1990

Development of thermoregulation and torpor in a marsupial: energetic and evolutionary implications

scientific article published on 22 September 2005

Developmental phenotypic plasticity in a marsupial.

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Dietary cholesterol enhances torpor in a rodent hibernator

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

Dietary fats and body lipid composition in relation to hibernation in free-ranging echidnas.

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Do season and distribution affect thermal energetics of a hibernating bat endemic to the tropics and subtropics?

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Do small precocial birds enter torpor to conserve energy during development?

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Down but Not Out: The Role of MicroRNAs in Hibernating Bats

scientific article published on 5 August 2015

Ecology of natural hibernation in the marsupial mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus).

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Effect of torpor on the water economy of an arid-zone marsupial, the stripe-faced dunnart (Sminthopsis macroura).

scientific article published on 29 April 2005

Effects of helium/oxygen and temperature on aerobic metabolism in the marsupial sugar glider, Petaurus breviceps.

scientific article published in March 2001

Effects of temperature acclimation on maximum heat production, thermal tolerance, and torpor in a marsupial

scientific article published on 20 May 2003

Fasting-induced daily torpor in desert hamsters (Phodopus roborovskii).

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Fat and fed: frequent use of summer torpor in a subtropical bat.

scientific article published on 16 September 2009

Field metabolic rates and water uptake in the blossom-bat Syconycteris australis (Megachiroptera)

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Frequent nocturnal torpor in a free-ranging Australian honeyeater, the noisy miner

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Friends with benefits: the role of huddling in mixed groups of torpid and normothermic animals.

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Heart rate as a predictor of metabolic rate in heterothermic bats.

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Heart rate dynamics in a marsupial hibernator.

scientific article published on 2 June 2017

Hibernation and Torpor in Tropical and Subtropical Bats in Relation to Energetics, Extinctions, and the Evolution of Endothermy

scientific article published on June 22, 2011

Hibernation and daily torpor minimize mammalian extinctions.

scientific article published on 4 July 2009

Hibernation by a free-ranging subtropical bat (Nyctophilus bifax).

scientific article published on 27 December 2008

Hibernation by tree-roosting bats.

scientific article published on 22 January 2008

Hibernation in pygmy possums (Marsupialia: Burramyidae)

scientific article published on 01 January 1985

Hibernation.

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Hot bats: extreme thermal tolerance in a desert heat wave

scientific article published on 9 July 2014

Increased lyrebird presence in a post-fire landscape

article published in 2015

Intraspecific differences in behaviour and physiology: effects of captive breeding on patterns of torpor in feathertail gliders.

scientific article published in October 2001

Measuring subcutaneous temperature and differential rates of rewarming from hibernation and daily torpor in two species of bats

scientific article published on 20 August 2015

More functions of torpor and their roles in a changing world

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No evidence for hibernation in rockwrens

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

Ontogeny and phylogeny of endothermy and torpor in mammals and birds.

scientific article published in May 2008

Organic contaminants in bats: trends and new issues.

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Passive rewarming from torpor in hibernating bats: minimizing metabolic costs and cardiac demands.

scientific article published on 19 November 2014

Phenotypic plasticity of post-fire activity and thermal biology of a free-ranging small mammal

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Phoenix from the Ashes: Fire, Torpor, and the Evolution of Mammalian Endothermy

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

Photoperiod affects daily torpor and tissue fatty acid composition in deer mice.

scientific article published on 8 December 2006

Physiological and behavioral responses of an arboreal mammal to smoke and charcoal-ash substrate.

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Physiological and behavioural responses of a small heterothermic mammal to fire stimuli

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Polyunsaturated dietary lipids lower the selected body temperature of a lizard

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

Post-fire recovery of torpor and activity patterns of a small mammal

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Post-wildfire physiological ecology of an Australian microbat.

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

Prey availability affects daily torpor by free-ranging Australian owlet-nightjars (Aegotheles cristatus)

scientific article published on December 17, 2011

Reduction of metabolism during hibernation and daily torpor in mammals and birds: temperature effect or physiological inhibition?

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

Rhythmicity of torpor in a marsupial hibernator, the mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus), under natural and laboratory conditions.

scientific article published on December 1998

Roosting behaviour of the tawny frogmouth (Podargus strigoides)

Seasonal Control of Mammalian Energy Balance: Recent Advances in the Understanding of Daily Torpor and Hibernation.

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Seasonal changes in energetics and torpor patterns in the subtropical blossom-bat Syconycteris australis (Megachiroptera).

scientific article published on February 1998

Seasonal changes in the thermoenergetics of the marsupial sugar glider, Petaurus breviceps.

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Seasonality of torpor patterns and physiological variables of a free-ranging subtropical bat.

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Seasonally constant field metabolic rates in free-ranging sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps).

scientific article published on 25 November 2009

Snoozing through the storm: torpor use during a natural disaster

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Summer and winter torpor use by a free-ranging marsupial.

scientific article published on 31 March 2012

Temperature selection and use of torpor by the marsupial Sminthopsis macroura.

scientific article published in July 1998

The "minimal boundary curve for endothermy" as a predictor of heterothermy in mammals and birds: a review.

scientific article published on 3 August 2007

The degree of dietary fatty acid unsaturation affects torpor patterns and lipid composition of a hibernator.

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The effect of metabolic fuel availability on thermoregulation and torpor in a marsupial hibernator

scientific article published on September 26, 2003

The effect of temperature on isolated perfused hearts of heterothermic marsupials

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

The effect of temperature on the pattern of torpor in a marsupial hibernator

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

The effect of unsaturated and saturated dietary lipids on the pattern of daily torpor and the fatty acid composition of tissues and membranes of the deer mouse Peromyscus maniculatus

scientific article published on January 1, 1991

The energetic cost of arousal from torpor in the marsupial Sminthopsis macroura: benefits of summer ambient temperature cycles

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

The energetics of basking behaviour and torpor in a small marsupial exposed to simulated natural conditions

scientific article (publication date: 4 November 2009)

The functional requirements of mammalian hair: a compromise between crypsis and thermoregulation?

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

The impact of dietary fats, photoperiod, temperature and season on morphological variables, torpor patterns, and brown adipose tissue fatty acid composition of hamsters, Phodopus sungorus

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

The importance of mammalian torpor for survival in a post-fire landscape

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The importance of temporal heterothermy in bats

The influence of natural photoperiod on seasonal torpor expression of two opportunistic marsupial hibernators.

scientific article published on 16 September 2016

The influence of reproductive hormones on the torpor patterns of the marsupial Sminthopsis macroura: bet-hedging in an unpredictable environment.

scientific article published on 5 September 2012

The key to winter survival: daily torpor in a small arid-zone marsupial.

scientific article published on 10 December 2008

The role of basking in the development of endothermy and torpor in a marsupial.

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

The temporal organization of daily torpor and hibernation: circadian and circannual rhythms.

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Thermal biology, torpor and behaviour in sugar gliders: a laboratory-field comparison

scientific article published on 16 February 2007

Thermal biology, torpor use and activity patterns of a small diurnal marsupial from a tropical desert: sexual differences.

scientific article published on 9 March 2010

Thermal biology, torpor, and activity in free-living mulgaras in arid zone Australia during the winter reproductive season.

scientific article published on July 2008

Thermal physiology of pregnant and lactating female and male long-eared bats, Nyctophilus geoffroyi and N. gouldi

scientific article published on 6 December 2005

Thermoregulation and torpor in the Kultarr,Antechinomys laniger (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)

scholarly article by Fritz Geiser published 1986 in Journal of Comparative Physiology B

Timing of the daily temperature cycle affects the critical arousal temperature and energy expenditure of lesser long-eared bats

scientific article published in December 2008

To use or not to use torpor? Activity and body temperature as predictors

scientific article published on 25 January 2007

Torpor and activity in a free-ranging tropical bat: implications for the distribution and conservation of mammals?

scientific article published on 17 March 2011

Torpor and activity patterns in free-ranging sugar gliders Petaurus breviceps (Marsupialia).

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Torpor and basking after a severe wildfire: mammalian survival strategies in a scorched landscape

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Torpor and basking in a small arid zone marsupial

scientific article (publication date: 2008)

Torpor and hypothermia: reversed hysteresis of metabolic rate and body temperature.

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Torpor during reproduction in mammals and birds: dealing with an energetic conundrum.

scientific article published on 27 June 2014

Torpor in free-ranging antechinus: does it increase fitness?

scientific article published on 18 January 2014

Torpor in the Patagonian opossum (Lestodelphys halli): implications for the evolution of daily torpor and hibernation

scientific article published on 18 September 2013

Vertebrate diet decreases winter torpor use in a desert marsupial.

scientific article published on 24 February 2009

Was basking important in the evolution of mammalian endothermy?

scientific article published on 14 August 2002

White mouse pups can use torpor for energy conservation

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Will Temperature Effects or Phenotypic Plasticity Determine the Thermal Response of a Heterothermic Tropical Bat to Climate Change?

scientific article published on July 3, 2012

Yearlong hibernation in a marsupial mammal.

scientific article published on 3 July 2007