Background The ability to remotely monitor the behavior of animals and their interactions
with their environment has revolutionized how ecologists conduct studies. The creative use …

In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems
on all continents and across the oceans and many species have shifted their geographic …

Globally, biodiversity is declining, and a major driver of this decline is climate change;
consequently, we need ways to evaluate the vulnerability of species to this change. We …

There is growing interest in the use of glucocorticoid (GC) hormones to understand how wild
animals respond to environmental challenges. Blood is the best medium for obtaining …

Most studies on how rising temperatures will impact terrestrial ectotherms have focused on
single populations or multiple sympatric species. Addressing the thermal and energetic …

Movements of ectotherms are constrained by their body temperature owing to the effects of
temperature on muscle physiology. As physical performance often affects the outcome of …

Understanding how environmental factors affect the performance of predators can provide
profound insights into predator–prey interactions from evolutionary and ecological …

Animals often aggregate at certain sites during vulnerable periods such as night-roosting as
an anti-predatory strategy. Some migratory gregarious animals must regularly find new night …

Snakes are sensitive to both environmental and climate gradients. To design conservation
plans, a scientific understanding of snake habitats in light of environmental and climatic …

We examined environmental factors influencing plasticity in antipredator defences of adult
gregarious desert locusts, Schistocerca gregaria, including daily cycles in temperature, light …