Endocrine flexibility can facilitate or constrain the ability to cope with global change

CC Taff, D Baldan, L Mentesana… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Global climate change has increased average environmental temperatures world-wide,
simultaneously intensifying temperature variability and extremes. Growing numbers of …

Quantifying glucocorticoid plasticity using reaction norm approaches: There still is so much to discover!

K Malkoc, L Mentesana… - Integrative and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Hormones are highly responsive internal signals that help organisms adjust their phenotype
to fluctuations in environmental and internal conditions. Our knowledge of the causes and …

A conceptual framework for understanding stress-induced physiological and transgenerational effects on population responses to climate change

OL Crino, R Bonduriansky, LB Martin… - Evolution …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Organisms are experiencing higher average temperatures and greater temperature
variability because of anthropogenic climate change. Some populations respond to changes …

[HTML][HTML] Hormones and fitness: evidence for trade-offs in glucocorticoid regulation across contexts

MN Vitousek, CC Taff, KK Hallinger… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Glucocorticoid hormones are important regulators of metabolic processes, and of the
behavioral and physiological responses to stressors. Within-population variation in …

Endocrine flexibility: optimizing phenotypes in a dynamic world?

CC Taff, MN Vitousek - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2016 - cell.com
Responding appropriately to changing conditions is crucial in dynamic environments.
Individual variation in the flexibility of physiological mediators of phenotype may influence …

Multiscale evaluation of thermal dependence in the glucocorticoid response of vertebrates

TS Jessop, ML Lane, L Teasdale… - The American …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Environmental temperature has profound effects on animal physiology, ecology, and
evolution. Glucocorticoid (GC) hormones, through effects on phenotypic performance and …

Hormonally mediated maternal effects, individual strategy and global change

S Meylan, DB Miles, J Clobert - … Transactions of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A challenge to ecologists and evolutionary biologists is predicting organismal responses to
the anticipated changes to global ecosystems through climate change. Most evidence …

Glucocorticoids in a warming world: Do they help birds to cope with high environmental temperatures?

L Mentesana, M Hau - Hormones and Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change is threatening biodiversity world-wide. One of its most prominent
manifestations are rising global temperatures and higher frequencies of heat waves. High …

Climate change and its effects on body size and shape: the role of endocrine mechanisms

GR Names, JL Grindstaff… - … Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In many organisms, rapidly changing environmental conditions are inducing dramatic shifts
in diverse phenotypic traits with consequences for fitness and population viability. However …

The evolutionary endocrinology of circulating glucocorticoids in free-living vertebrates: recent advances and future directions across scales of study

S Guindre-Parker - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Circulating glucocorticoid hormone concentrations are dynamic, flexible, and promote
adaptive responses following perturbations in an animal's environment. As a result …