Subterranean Rodents News from Underground /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Begall, Sabine (Editor), Burda, Hynek (Editor), Schleich, Cristian E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Animal ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Zoology.; Animal physiology.; Vertebrates.; Life Sciences.; Animal Physiology.; Animal Ecology.; Evolutionary Biology.

Across the globe, about 250 species of rodents spend most of their lives in safe and stable, but dark, oxygen-poor and carbon dioxide-rich burrows, deprived of most of the sensory cues available aboveground. They have become fully specialized for a unique way of life in which foraging and breeding t...