Refuge microclimates of rodents: a surface nesting Otomys unisulcatus and a burrowing Parotomys brantsii

Abstract

Authors investigated microclimates of the nest of Otomys unisulatus Cuvier, 1829 and the warren of Parotomys brantsii (Smith, 1834) during two seasons and correlated these with the rodents' physiology.