coolEnergy: Calculate energy needed during a cooling to torpor

In cReedHranac/batwintor: Tool for bat hibernation energetics

Description

coolEnergy Calculate the energy required to cool to torpid temperatures

Usage

coolEnergy(Ta, bat.params)

Arguments

Ta	ambient temperature
bat.params	list of bat parameters output from batLoad

Value

returns energy required to cool

Author(s)

Katie Haase

References

McKechnie & Wolf 2004 equation 3

See Also

arousalEnergy, coolTime, coolEnergy, euthermicEnergy, flyingEnergy, flyingTime

Other Arousal Functions: arousalEnergy, arousalTime, euthermicEnergy, flyingEnergy, flyingTime

Examples

##CalcEnergyCool
data("mylu.params")

e <- -10:34 #temperature vector

r <- coolEnergy(Ta = e, bat.params = mylu.params)

plot(e, r, xlab = "Temp (C)", ylab = "Energy Expended",
     main = "coolEnergy")

cReedHranac/batwintor documentation built on Jan. 27, 2020, 7:39 p.m.