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 …

Extreme temperatures can injure or kill organisms and can drive evolutionary patterns. Many
indices of extremes have been proposed, but few attempts have been made to establish …

Animals exhibit an extraordinary diversity of life history strategies. These realized
combinations of survival, development and reproduction are predicted to be constrained by …

Conventionally, women are perceived to feel colder than men, but controlled comparisons
are sparse. We measured the response of healthy, lean, young women and men to a range …

Deserts are among the harshest environments on Earth. The multiple ages of different
deserts and their global distribution provide a unique opportunity to study repeated …

A basic property of endothermic thermoregulation is the ability to generate heat by
increasing metabolism in response to cold ambient temperatures to maintain a stable core …

Body size and shape fundamentally determine organismal energy requirements by
modulating heat and mass exchange with the environment and the costs of locomotion …

Adaptive explanations for both high and low body mass-independent basal metabolic rate
(BMR) in endotherms are pervasive in evolutionary physiology, but arguments implying a …

Abstract Aim The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) expert range maps
and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) species occurrence data are …

Body temperature is a crucial variable in animals that affects nearly every aspect of their
lives. Here we analyze for the first time largescale patterns in the evolution of body …