The physiology of heat tolerance in small endotherms

AE McKechnie, BO Wolf - Physiology, 2019‏ - journals.physiology.org
Understanding the heat tolerances of small mammals and birds has taken on new urgency
with the advent of climate change. Here, we review heat tolerance limits, pathways of …

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 …

[کتاب][B] Ecological physiology of daily torpor and hibernation

F Geiser - 2021‏ - Springer
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 …

Seasonal Expression of Avian and Mammalian Daily Torpor and Hibernation: Not a Simple Summer-Winter Affair

F Geiser - Frontiers in Physiology, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
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 …

eDNA sampled from stream networks correlates with camera trap detection rates of terrestrial mammals

A Lyet, L Pellissier, A Valentini, T Dejean… - Scientific Reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Biodiversity monitoring delivers vital information to those making conservation decisions.
Comprehensively measuring terrestrial biodiversity usually requires costly methods that can …

COVID-19. Pandemic surgery guidance

BLDM Brücher, G Nigri, A Tinelli, J Florencio… - 4 OPEN, 2020‏ - iris.uniroma1.it
Based on high quality surgery and scientific data, scientists and surgeons are committed to
protecting patients as well as healthcare staff and hereby provide this Guidance to address …

[کتاب][B] Opossums: an adaptive radiation of New World marsupials

RS Voss, SA Jansa - 2021‏ - books.google.com
The definitive volume on opossums, a group of ecologically and scientifically important
mammals, covering natural history, evolution, behavior, and biogeography. Opossums are …

Does death drive the scaling of life?

DS Glazier - Biological Reviews, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The magnitude of many kinds of biological structures and processes scale with organismal
size, often in regular ways that can be described by power functions. Traditionally, many of …

The field metabolic rate, water turnover, and feeding and drinking behavior of a small avian desert granivore during a summer heatwave

CE Cooper, PC Withers, LL Hurley… - Frontiers in Physiology, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Global environmental change is leading to an increase in the frequency, intensity, and
duration of extreme weather events, so effective environmental management requires an …