Daily torpor and hibernation in birds and mammals

T Ruf, F Geiser - Biological Reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Many birds and mammals drastically reduce their energy expenditure during times of cold
exposure, food shortage, or drought, by temporarily abandoning euthermia, ie the …

How dryland mammals will respond to climate change: the effects of body size, heat load and a lack of food and water

A Fuller, D Mitchell, SK Maloney… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Mammals in drylands are facing not only increasing heat loads but also reduced water and
food availability as a result of climate change. Insufficient water results in suppression of …

Climate extremes likely to drive land mammal extinction during next supercontinent assembly

A Farnsworth, YTE Lo, PJ Valdes, JR Buzan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mammals have dominated Earth for approximately 55 Myr thanks to their adaptations and
resilience to warming and cooling during the Cenozoic. All life will eventually perish in a …

Local climatic changes affect biodiversity responses to land use: A review

JJ Williams, T Newbold - Diversity and Distributions, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climate and land‐use change, the greatest pressures on biodiversity, can directly
influence each other. One key case is the impact land‐use change has on local climatic …

Tropical bats counter heat by combining torpor with adaptive hyperthermia

S Reher, KH Dausmann - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many tropical mammals are vulnerable to heat because their water budget limits the use of
evaporative cooling for heat compensation. Further increasing temperatures and aridity …

A phenology of the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals

BG Lovegrove - Biological Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recent palaeontological data and novel physiological hypotheses now allow a timescaled
reconstruction of the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals. A three‐phase iterative …

More functions of torpor and their roles in a changing world

J Nowack, C Stawski, F Geiser - Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 2017 - Springer
Increased winter survival by reducing energy expenditure in adult animals is often viewed as
the primary function of torpor. However, torpor has many other functions that ultimately …

[HTML][HTML] The hibernation continuum: physiological and molecular aspects of metabolic plasticity in mammals

F van Breukelen, SL Martin - Physiology, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Mammals are often considered to be masters of homeostasis, with the ability to maintain a
constant internal milieu, despite marked changes in the environment; however, many …

Variable climates lead to varying phenotypes:“Weird” mammalian torpor and lessons from non-holarctic species

J Nowack, DL Levesque, S Reher… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mammalian heterotherms, species that employ short or long periods of torpor, are found in
many different climatic regions. Although the underlying physiological mechanisms of …

Hydration and evaporative water loss of lizards change in response to temperature and humidity acclimation

SJ Weaver, T McIntyre, T van Rossum… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Testing acclimation plasticity informs our understanding of organismal physiology and
applies to conservation management amidst our rapidly changing climate. Although there is …