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Mapping Shade Availability and Use in Zoo Environments: A Tool for Evaluating Thermal Comfort
Animals, 2020 For many species in zoos, particularly megafauna vulnerable to heat stress, shade is a key environmental resource. However, shade availability has received comparatively less attention than other aspects of the zoo environment.
Jason D. Wark +2 more
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Radiative Cooling and Thermoregulation in the Earth's Glow [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Passive radiative cooling involves a net radiative heat loss into the cold outer space through the atmospheric transmission windows. Due to its passive nature and net cooling effect, it is a promising alternative or complement to electrical cooling. For efficient radiative cooling of objects, an unimpeded view of the sky is ideal.
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How large should whales be? [PDF]
PLOS ONE 8(1), e53967 (2013), 2012 The evolution and distribution of species body sizes for terrestrial mammals is well-explained by a macroevolutionary tradeoff between short-term selective advantages and long-term extinction risks from increased species body size, unfolding above the 2g minimum size induced by thermoregulation in air.
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Cooling requirements fueled the collapse of a desert bird community from climate change. [PDF]
, 2019 Climate change threatens global biodiversity by increasing extinction risk, yet few studies have uncovered a physiological basis of climate-driven species declines.
Beissinger, Steven R +4 more
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Moosinesq Convection in the Cores of Moosive Stars [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Stars with masses $\gtrsim 4 \times 10^{27}M_{\rm{moose}} \approx 1.1 M_\odot$ have core convection zones during their time on the main sequence. In these moosive stars, convection introduces many uncertainties in stellar modeling. In this Letter, we build upon the Boussinesq approximation to present the first-ever simulations of Moosinesq convection ...
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Iheringia: Série ZoologiaLow thermal quality environments, such extreme latitudes or high elevation regions, are highly expensive for reptiles in terms of thermoregulation. Thus, physiological adaptations or behavioral adjustments to live in these habitats have evolved in some ...
Miguel A. Méndez-Galeano +1 more
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Thermoregulation in mice, rats and humans: An insight into the evolution of human hairlessness [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 The thermoregulation system in animals removes body heat in hot temperatures and retains body heat in cold temperatures. The better the animal removes heat, the worse the animal retains heat and visa versa. It is the balance between these two conflicting goals that determines the mammal's size, heart rate and amount of hair. The rat's loss of tail hair
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Hierarchical Model with Allee Effect, Immigration, and Holling Type II Functional Response [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 In this paper, we discuss a hierarchical model, based on a Ricker competition model. The species considered are competing for resources and may be subject to an Allee effect due to mate limitation, anti-predator vigilance or aggression, cooperative predation or resource defense, or social thermoregulation.
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Modeling behavioral thermoregulation in a climate change sentinel
Ecology and Evolution, 2015 When possible, many species will shift in elevation or latitude in response to rising temperatures. However, before such shifts occur, individuals will first tolerate environmental change and then modify their behavior to maintain heat balance ...
Lucas Moyer‐Horner +4 more
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Low temperatures impact species distributions of jumping spiders across a desert elevational cline. [PDF]
, 2020 Temperature is known to influence many aspects of organisms and is frequently linked to geographical species distributions. Despite the importance of a broad understanding of an animal's thermal biology, few studies incorporate more than one metric of ...
Brandt, Erin E +3 more
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