Heat Production and Temperature Regulation in Eastern Skunk Cabbage
Abstract
The spadix of Symplocarpus foetidus L. maintains an internal temperature 15 degrees to 35 degrees C above ambient air temperatures of -15 degrees to +15 degrees C. For at least 14 days it consumes oxygen at a rate comparable to that of homeothermic animals of equivalent size. Temperature regulation is accomplished by variations in respiratory rate.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- November 1974
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.186.4165.746
- Bibcode:
- 1974Sci...186..746K