Badger setts provide thermal refugia, buffering changeable surface weather conditions
Den use can be crucial in buffering environmental conditions and especially to provide an insulated environment for raising altricial young. Through Sept-Dec 2016 we monitored temperature and humidity at 11 badger setts (burrow systems), using thermal probes inserted over 4–13 sett entrances to a de...
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Elsevier
2018
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