Since the early 1990s, ecologists and evolutionary biologists have aggregated primary
research using meta‐analytic methods to understand ecological and evolutionary …

Abstract Changes in the environment related to inclement weather can threaten survival and
reproductive success both through direct adverse exposure and indirectly by decreasing …

The concept of stress is notoriously difficult to define, despite its ubiquity in both common
parlance and the scientific literature. Given the clear importance of understanding how …

Glucocorticoid (GC) variation has long been thought to reflect variation in organismal
'stress,'but associations between GCs and Darwinian fitness components are diverse in …

The ability to maintain a (relatively) stable body temperature in a wide range of thermal
environments by use of endogenous heat production is a unique feature of endotherms such …

Glucocorticoid (GC) hormones are important phenotypic mediators across vertebrates, but
their circulating concentrations can vary markedly. Here we investigate macroevolutionary …

As a class of vertebrates, amphibians, are at greater risk for declines or extinctions than any
other vertebrate group, including birds and mammals. There are many threats, including …

Climate change is threatening biodiversity world-wide. One of its most prominent
manifestations are rising global temperatures and higher frequencies of heat waves. High …

Relatively little effort has been directed towards elucidating the role of physiological stress
pathways in mediating avian responses to global heating. For free-ranging southern pied …

Fluctuations in environmental temperature affect energy metabolism and stimulate the
expression of reversible phenotypic plasticity in vertebrate behavioural and physiological …