Many birds and mammals drastically reduce their energy expenditure during times of cold
exposure, food shortage, or drought, by temporarily abandoning euthermia, ie the …

Winter is a key driver of individual performance, community composition, and ecological
interactions in terrestrial habitats. Although climate change research tends to focus on …

The last 'hibernation book'was published in 1982, nearly 40 years ago, so clearly an update
was needed. The options were a book written by a single author or an edited book written by …

Climatic shifts to warmer and often drier conditions are challenging terrestrial species
worldwide. These shifts are occurring more rapidly at higher elevations and latitudes, likely …

Many environmental conditions can constrain the ability of animals to obtain sufficient food
energy, or transform that food energy into useful chemical forms. To survive extended …

Animals must balance their energy budgets even when confronted with periodic food
shortages and/or adverse environmental conditions. Especially, small endothermic animals …

Phenotypic differences among individuals can arise during any stage of life. Although
several distinct processes underlying individual differences have been defined and studied …

Daily torpor and hibernation (multiday torpor) are the most efficient means for energy
conservation in endothermic birds and mammals and are used by many small species to …

We studied the impact of hibernation and food supply on relative telomere length (RTL), an
indicator for aging and somatic maintenance, in free-living edible dormice. Small hibernators …

Mammalian hibernation consists of energy-saving torpor bouts (periods of controlled
reduction in body temperature [T b]) interspersed with brief arousals to normothermic T b …