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Fritz Geiser is affiliated with the University of New England in Australia and has a substantial body of research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work extends across various subfields, notably Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Animal Science and Zoology, Physiology, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
  • Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations
  • Marine Animal Studies Overview
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Geiser has contributed to numerous publications, with several papers published in prominent journals. Selected recent papers include:

  • Seasonal Expression of Avian and Mammalian Daily Torpor and Hibernation: Not a Simple Summer-Winter Affair, 2020, Frontiers in Physiology
  • Growing Up in a Changing Climate: How Temperature Affects the Development of Morphological, Behavioral and Physiological Traits of a Marsupial Mammal, 2020, Frontiers in Physiology
  • Rare and Opportunistic Use of Torpor in Mammals-An Echo from the Past?, 2023, Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Hypothesis and Theory: A Two-Process Model of Torpor-Arousal Regulation in Hibernators, 2022, Frontiers in Physiology
  • Long-term survival, temperature, and torpor patterns, 2023, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Geiser include Gerhard Körtner, Clare Stawski, Yaara Aharon-Rotman, Shannon E. Currie, and Chris B. Wacker.

Publication venues where Geiser has multiple contributions are:

  • Frontiers in Physiology
  • Australian Journal of Zoology
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology

In addition to journal articles, Geiser has authored a book titled Ecological Physiology of Daily Torpor and Hibernation, published by Springer International Publishing in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Metabolic Rate and Body Temperature Reduction During Hibernation and Daily Torpor

    Fritz Geiser

  • Daily torpor and hibernation in birds and mammals.

    Thomas Ruf;Thomas Ruf;Fritz Geiser

  • Hibernation versus Daily Torpor in Mammals and Birds: Physiological Variables and Classification of Torpor Patterns

    Fritz Geiser;Thomas Ruf

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

    Fritz Geiser

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

    Gerhard Körtner;Fritz Geiser

  • Torpor Duration in Relation to Temperature and Metabolism in Hibernating Ground Squirrels

    Fritz Geiser;G. J. Kenagy

  • Polyunsaturated lipid diet lengthens torpor and reduces body temperature in a hibernator

    F. Geiser;G. J. Kenagy

  • EVOLUTION OF DAILY TORPOR AND HIBERNATION IN BIRDS AND MAMMALS: IMPORTANCE OF BODY SIZE

    Fritz Geiser

  • Deep, prolonged torpor by pregnant, free-ranging bats

    Craig K. R. Willis;R. Mark Brigham;Fritz Geiser

  • Hibernation and daily torpor minimize mammalian extinctions.

    Fritz Geiser;Christopher Turbill

  • Periodic arousals in hibernating mammals: is evaporative water loss involved?

    D. W. Thomas;F. Geiser

  • Torpor, thermal biology, and energetics in Australian long-eared bats (Nyctophilus).

    F. Geiser;R. M. Brigham

  • The importance of temporal heterothermy in bats

    Clare Stawski;Clare Stawski;C K R Willis;Fritz Geiser

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

    Gerhard Kortner;Fritz Geiser

  • Seasonality of torpor and thermoregulation in three dasyurid marsupials

    Fritz Geiser;R. V. Baudinette

  • Adaptations to the Cold

    F Geiser;AJ Hulbert;SC Nicol

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

    Claudia Bieber;Claudia Bieber;Karin Lebl;Gabrielle Stalder;Fritz Geiser

  • The Other Functions of Torpor

    Fritz Geiser;R. Mark Brigham

  • 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.

    Fritz Geiser

  • Radiant heat affects thermoregulation and energy expenditure during rewarming from torpor.

    F. Geiser;R. L. Drury

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Körtner
Gerhard Körtner University of New England
R. Mark Brigham
R. Mark Brigham University of Regina
Christopher Turbill
Christopher Turbill University of Sydney
Craig K. R. Willis
Craig K. R. Willis University of Winnipeg
Philip C. Withers
Philip C. Withers University of Western Australia
Bradley Law
Bradley Law New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
Roger S. Seymour
Roger S. Seymour University of Adelaide
Shuyi Zhang
Shuyi Zhang Shenyang Agricultural University
Michael Archer
Michael Archer University of New South Wales
Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones University of Bristol

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