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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology

Boyles, JG

Post-doctoral Fellow

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E-mail address: jboyles@zoology.up.ac.za

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Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Storm JJ, Boyles JG: 2011. Body temperature and body mass of hibernating little brown batsMyotis lucifugus in hibernacula affected by white-nose syndrome. Acta Theriologica, 56, pp 123-127, Full Text

Aubrey DP, Boyles JG, Krysinsky LS, Teskey RO: 2011. Spatial and temporal patterns of xylem sap pH derived from stems and twigs of Populus deltoides L. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 71, pp 376-381.

Boyles JG, Seebacker F, Smit B, McKechnie AE: 2011. Adaptive thermoregulation in endotherms may alter responses to climate change. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 51 (5), pp 676-690.

Willis CKR, Menzies AK, Boyles JG, Wojciechowski MS: 2011. Evaporative water loss is a plausible explanation for mortality of bats from white-nose syndrome. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 51 (3), pp 364-373.

Smit B, Boyles JG, Brigham RM, McKechnie AE: 2011. Torpor in dark times: patterns of heterothermy are associated with the lunar cycle in a nocturnal bird. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 26 (3), pp 241-248, Full Text

Boyles JG, Smit B, McKechnie AE: 2011. Does use of the torpor cut-off method to analyze variation in body temperature cause more problems than it solves?. Journal of Thermal Biology, 36, pp 373-379.

Boyles JG, Smit B, McKechnie AE: 2011. A new comparative metric for estimating heterothermy in endotherms. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 84 (1), pp 115-123, Full Text

Streicher S, Boyles JG, Oosthuizen MK, Bennett NC: 2011. Body temperature patterns and rhythmicity in free-ranging subterranean Damaraland mole-rats,Fukomys damarensis. Plos One, 6 (10), p. e26346, Full Text

Boyles JG, Cryan PM, McCracken GF, Kunz TH: 2011. Economic importance of bats in agriculture. Science, 332, pp 41-42.

 

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