Basal or standard metabolic rate reflects the minimum amount of energy required to
maintain body processes, while the maximum metabolic rate sets the ceiling for aerobic …

Phenotypic plasticity has been suggested as the main mechanism for species persistence
under a global change scenario, and also as one of the main mechanisms that alien species …

This chapter reviews what is known about how climatic variation shapes physiological traits
and in turn how this can help explain distributional range limits. Over the last decade a …

A species' potential geographical range is largely determined by how the species responds
physiologically to its changing environment. It is therefore crucial to study the physiological …

Understanding how individual differences in physiological performance modify behavioral
responses to environmental variability and its fitness consequences is key to predicting the …

Recent experiments on shorebirds have demonstrated that maintaining an active
osmoregulatory machinery is energetically expensive. This may, in part, explain diet and …

Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is one of the most widely used metabolic variables in endotherm
ecological and evolutionary physiology. Surprisingly few studies have investigated how …

In mountain environments, both temperature and food availability vary strongly with altitude,
leading to a major challenge to the thermo‐energetic balance of organisms. In this sense …

To cope with life in the mountains, populations of the same species can exhibit substantial
variability in their altitudinal migration patterns and phenotypes in response to local weather …

Seasonal changes in environmental conditions may induce reversible physiological
adjustments in organisms. We studied the acclimatization for multiple stressors in energy …