How dryland mammals will respond to climate change: the effects of body size, heat load and a lack of food and water

Facultative hyperthermia during a heatwave delays injurious dehydration of an arboreal marsupial

(2020) James M. Turner   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Seasonal Expression of Avian and Mammalian Daily Torpor and Hibernation: Not a Simple Summer-Winter Affair†

(2020) Fritz Geiser   Frontiers in Physiology

Variable Climates Lead to Varying Phenotypes: “Weird” Mammalian Torpor and Lessons From Non-Holarctic Species

(2020) Julia Nowack et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Increasing trends in regional heatwaves

(2020) S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick et al.   Nature Communications

Increased Diurnal Activity Is Indicative of Energy Deficit in a Nocturnal Mammal, the Aardvark

(2020) Nora Marie Weyer et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Predicting temperature mortality and selection in natural Drosophila populations

(2020) Enrico L. Rezende et al.   SCIENCE

The functional significance of facultative hyperthermia varies with body size and phylogeny in birds

(2019) Alexander R. Gerson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Coping with climate change: limited behavioral responses to hot weather in a tropical carnivore

(2019) D. Rabaiotti et al.   OECOLOGIA

Forecasting wildlife die-offs from extreme heat events

(2019) H. U. Ratnayake et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

The functional roles of mammals in ecosystems

(2019) Thomas E Lacher et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Drylands climate response to transient and stabilized 2 °C and 1.5 °C global warming targets

(2019) Yun Wei et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Needing a drink: Rainfall and temperature drive the use of free water by a threatened arboreal folivore

(2019) Valentina S. A. Mella et al.   PLoS One

Chronic, sublethal effects of high temperatures will cause severe declines in southern African arid-zone birds during the 21st century

(2019) Shannon R. Conradie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Historical reconstruction unveils the risk of mass mortality and ecosystem collapse during pancontinental megadrought

(2019) Robert C. Godfree et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of climate change on pup growth and survival in a cooperative mammal, the meerkat

(2019) Tanja M. F. N. Van de Ven et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Global Changes in Drought Conditions Under Different Levels of Warming

(2018) G. Naumann et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Body temperature, activity patterns, and hunting in free-living cheetah: biologging reveals new insights

(2018) Robyn S. Hetem et al.   Integrative Zoology

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

(2018) Duncan Mitchell et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Savanna elephants maintain homeothermy under African heat

(2018) Michael A. Mole et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Integrating Competing Demands of Osmoregulatory and Thermoregulatory Homeostasis

(2018) Michael J. McKinley et al.   PHYSIOLOGY

Biological responses to the press and pulse of climate trends and extreme events

(2018) R. M. B. Harris et al.   Nature Climate Change

TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015

(2018) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   Scientific Data

Ecological winners and losers of extreme drought in California

(2018) Laura R. Prugh et al.   Nature Climate Change

Time and ecological resilience: can diurnal animals compensate for climate change by shifting to nocturnal activity?

(2018) Ofir Levy et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Hot dogs: High ambient temperatures impact reproductive success in a tropical carnivore

(2017) Rosie Woodroffe et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Body temperature patterns of a small endotherm in an extreme desert environment

(2017) A.N. Alagaili et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

More functions of torpor and their roles in a changing world

(2017) Julia Nowack et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Dehydration Causes Increased Reliance on Protein Oxidation in Mice: A Test of the Protein-for-Water Hypothesis in a Mammal

(2017) Marshall D. McCue et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Foraging Activity Pattern Is Shaped by Water Loss Rates in a Diurnal Desert Rodent

(2016) Ofir Levy et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Climate Change and the Emergent Epidemic of CKD from Heat Stress in Rural Communities: The Case for Heat Stress Nephropathy

(2016) J. Glaser et al.   Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Seasonal Control of Mammalian Energy Balance: Recent Advances in the Understanding of Daily Torpor and Hibernation

(2016) M. Jastroch et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Coping with heat: behavioural and physiological responses of savanna elephants in their natural habitat

(2016) Michael A. Mole et al.   Conservation Physiology

Stronger warming amplification over drier ecoregions observed since 1979

(2015) Liming Zhou et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Diurnality as an energy-saving strategy: energetic consequences of temporal niche switching in small mammals

(2015) V. van der Vinne et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Recent shifts in the occurrence, cause, and magnitude of animal mass mortality events

(2015) Samuel B. Fey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hypohydration and Human Performance: Impact of Environment and Physiological Mechanisms

(2015) Michael N. Sawka et al.   SPORTS MEDICINE

Selective Brain Cooling Reduces Water Turnover in Dehydrated Sheep

(2015) W. Maartin Strauss et al.   PLoS One

Biodiversity on the Rocks: Macrofauna Inhabiting Authigenic Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps

(2015) Lisa A. Levin et al.   PLoS One

Heterothermy in large mammals: inevitable or implemented?

(2014) Robyn S. Hetem et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Adaptation to Heat and Water Shortage in Large, Arid-Zone Mammals

(2014) Andrea Fuller et al.   PHYSIOLOGY

Biogeography of time partitioning in mammals

(2014) J. J. Bennie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate influences thermal balance and water use in African and Asian elephants: physiology can predict drivers of elephant distribution

(2013) R. C. Dunkin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Heat storage in Asian elephants during submaximal exercise: behavioral regulation of thermoregulatory constraints on activity in endothermic gigantotherms

(2013) M. F. Rowe et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Are Tropical Small Mammals Physiologically Vulnerable to Arrhenius Effects and Climate Change?

(2013) Barry G. Lovegrove et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Feeling the heat: Australian landbirds and climate change

(2012) Andrew E. McKechnie et al.   EMU

Activity re-assignment and microclimate selection of free-living Arabian oryx: responses that could minimise the effects of climate change on homeostasis?

(2012) Robyn S. Hetem et al.   ZOOLOGY

Interspecific Competition and Torpor in Golden Spiny Mice: Two Sides of the Energy-Acquisition Coin

(2011) O. Levy et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Does size matter? Comparison of body temperature and activity of free-living Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) and the smaller Arabian sand gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa marica) in the Saudi desert

(2011) Robyn Sheila Hetem et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Minimum daily core body temperature in western grey kangaroos decreases as summer advances: a seasonal pattern, or a direct response to water, heat or energy supply?

(2011) S. K. Maloney et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Starvation physiology: Reviewing the different strategies animals use to survive a common challenge

(2010) Marshall D. McCue   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Activity pattern of Geoffroy’s cats (Leopardus geoffroyi) during a period of food shortage

(2010) J.A. Pereira   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Homeothermy and primate bipedalism: Is water shortage or solar radiation the main threat to baboon (Papio hamadryas) homeothermy?

(2009) Duncan Mitchell et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Effects of heat stress on mammalian reproduction

(2009) P. J. Hansen   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effect of water restriction on lactation performance of Aardi goats under heat stress conditions

(2009) Mohammed Alamer   SMALL RUMINANT RESEARCH

The relative roles of the parasol-like tail and burrow shuttling in thermoregulation of free-ranging Cape ground squirrels, Xerus inauris

(2008) Linda G. Fick et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Higher origination and extinction rates in larger mammals

(2008) L. H. Liow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Warming, plant phenology and the spatial dimension of trophic mismatch for large herbivores

(2008) E. Post et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate change and the effects of temperature extremes on Australian flying-foxes

(2007) J. A Welbergen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES