Determinants of inter-specific variation in basal metabolic rate

CR White, MR Kearney - Journal of Comparative physiology B, 2013 - Springer
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of metabolism of a resting, postabsorptive, non-
reproductive, adult bird or mammal, measured during the inactive circadian phase at a …

Phenotypic flexibility in basal metabolic rate and the changing view of avian physiological diversity: a review

AE McKechnie - Journal of comparative physiology B, 2008 - Springer
Comparative analyses of avian energetics often involve the implicit assumption that basal
metabolic rate (BMR) is a fixed, taxon-specific trait. However, in most species that have been …

[КНИГА][B] The biology of deserts

D Ward - 2016 - books.google.com
This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a
strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis …

Tropical birds have a slow pace of life

P Wiersma, A Muñoz-Garcia… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Tropical birds are relatively long-lived and produce few offspring, which develop slowly and
mature relatively late in life, the slow end of the life-history axis, whereas temperate birds lie …

Whole-animal metabolic rate is a repeatable trait: a meta-analysis

RF Nespolo, M Franco - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2007 - journals.biologists.com
Repeatability studies are gaining considerable interest among physiological ecologists,
particularly in traits affected by high environmental/residual variance, such as whole-animal …

Adaptation of metabolism and evaporative water loss along an aridity gradient

BI Tieleman, JB Williams… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Broad–scale comparisons of birds indicate the possibility of adaptive modification of basal
metabolic rate (BMR) and total evaporative water loss (TEWL) in species from desert …

Phenotypic plasticity in the scaling of avian basal metabolic rate

AE McKechnie, RP Freckleton… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many birds exhibit short-term, reversible adjustments in basal metabolic rate (BMR), but the
overall contribution of phenotypic plasticity to avian metabolic diversity remains unclear. The …

Physiological adaptation in desert birds

JB Williams, BI Tieleman - Bioscience, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We call into question the idea that birds have not evolved unique physiological adaptations
to desert environments. The rate at which desert larks metabolize energy is lower than in …

Thermal acclimatisation to heatwave conditions is rapid but sex-specific in wild zebra finches

A Pessato, E Udino, AE McKechnie, ATD Bennett… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Under climate change, increasing air temperature average and variability pose substantial
thermal challenges to animals. While plasticity in thermoregulatory traits could potentially …

The evolution of age-dependent plasticity

B Fischer, GS van Doorn, U Dieckmann… - The American …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
When organisms encounter environments that are heterogeneous in time, phenotypic
plasticity is often favored by selection. The degree of such plasticity can vary during an …