Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: predicting responses of mammals to climate change

D Mitchell, EP Snelling, RS Hetem… - Journal of Animal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The accuracy of predictive models (also known as mechanistic or causal models) of animal
responses to climate change depends on properly incorporating the principles of heat …

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 …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

[KİTAP][B] Saving animals, saving ourselves: Why animals matter for pandemics, climate change, and other catastrophes

J Sebo - 2022 - books.google.com
In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid
reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of …

Climate change impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections

PA Nuttall - Biologia, 2022 - Springer
Evidence climate change is impacting ticks and tick-borne infections is generally lacking.
This is primarily because, in most parts of the world, there are no long-term and replicated …

Hot droughts compromise interannual survival across all group sizes in a cooperatively breeding bird

AR Bourne, SJ Cunningham, CN Spottiswoode… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is affecting animal populations around the world and one relatively
unexplored aspect of species vulnerability is whether and to what extent responses to …

Non-torpid heterothermy in mammals: another category along the homeothermy–hibernation continuum

DL Levesque, AM Breit, E Brown… - Integrative and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Variability in body temperature is now recognized to be widespread among whole-body
endotherms with homeothermy being the exception rather than the norm. A wide range of …

Fog and fauna of the Namib Desert: past and future

D Mitchell, JR Henschel, RS Hetem… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The future of fog‐dependent habitats under climate change is unknown but likely precarious;
many have experienced recent declines in fog. Fog‐dependent deserts particularly will be …

A century of exercise physiology: concepts that ignited the study of human thermoregulation. Part 1: Foundational principles and theories of regulation

SR Notley, D Mitchell, NAS Taylor - European Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Springer
This contribution is the first of a four-part, historical series encompassing foundational
principles, mechanistic hypotheses and supported facts concerning human …

Effects of reproduction and environmental factors on body temperature and activity patterns of wolverines

A Thiel, AL Evans, B Fuchs, JM Arnemo, M Aronsson… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - Springer
Background Mammals in the far north are exposed to extreme seasonal changes in
environmental conditions, such as temperature and photoperiod, which have notable effects …