Adaptive responses of the embryos of birds and reptiles to spatial and temporal variations in nest temperatures

WG Du, R Shine, L Ma, BJ Sun - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Natural nests of egg-laying birds and reptiles exhibit substantial thermal variation, at a range
of spatial and temporal scales. Rates and trajectories of embryonic development are highly …

Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change

B Sun, CM Williams, T Li, JR Speakman… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns in functional diversity of organisms at large spatial scales can provide insight into
possible responses to future climate change, but it remains a challenge to link large‐scale …

Locust density shapes energy metabolism and oxidative stress resulting in divergence of flight traits

B Du, D Ding, C Ma, W Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Flight ability is essential for the enormous diversity and evolutionary success of insects. The
migratory locusts exhibit flight capacity plasticity in gregarious and solitary individuals …

Moderate climate warming scenarios during embryonic and post‐embryonic stages benefit a cold‐climate lizard

W Liu, P Liu, L Cui, Y Meng, S Tao, X Han… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Warming temperatures caused by climate change are predicted to vary temporally and
spatially. For mid‐and high‐latitude reptiles, the seasonal variation in warming temperatures …

Nocturnal dispersal flight of crickets: Behavioural and physiological responses to cool environmental temperatures

BJ Sun, C Huebner, LA Treidel, RM Clark… - Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Flight of nocturnal insects may be limited by cool nighttime environmental temperatures. We
used laboratory and field experiments to explore the thermal basis of nocturnal flight in wing …

Metabolic regulation reduces the oxidative damage of arid lizards in response to moderate heat events

X Han, B Sun, Q Zhang, L Teng, F Zhang… - Integrative …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming poses a significant threat to species worldwide, particularly those
inhabiting arid and semi‐arid regions where extreme temperatures are increasingly …

The divergent effects of moderate climate warming on the gut microbiota and energetic state of cold-climate lizards from open and semi-closed microhabitats

W Liu, J Yang, Y Meng, D Wu, L Cui, T Li… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Understanding the physiological responses to warming temperatures is critical
for evaluating the vulnerabilities of animals to climate warming. The physiological responses …

Anticipatory parental effects in a subtropical lizard in response to experimental warming

BJ Sun, Y Wang, Y Wang, HL Lu, WG Du - Frontiers in Zoology, 2018 - Springer
Parental effects may produce adaptive or maladaptive plasticity that either facilitates
persistence or increases the extinction risk of species and populations in a changing …

Collective effects of rising average temperatures and heat events on oviparous embryos

L Ma, DY Wu, Y Wang, JM Hall, CR Mi… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Survival of the immobile embryo in response to rising temperature is important to determine
a species' vulnerability to climate change. However, the collective effects of 2 key thermal …

Physiology and acclimation potential are tuned with phenology in larvae of a prolonged breeder amphibian

U Enriquez‐Urzelai, AG Nicieza, A Montori… - Oikos, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the speed of climate changes, rapid buffering mechanisms such as phenotypic
plasticity–which may depend on breeding phenology–could be key to avoid extinction. The …