Regional heterothermy in Megasoma gyas is not related to active heat dissipation by the horns [PDF]
Insect SciInsect Science, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 1206-1210, June 2026.
Danilo Giacometti +4 more
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Predation can shape the cascade interplay between heterothermy, exploration and maintenance metabolism under high food availability [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMaintenance metabolism as the minimum energy expenditure needed to maintain homeothermy (a high and stable body temperature, Tb), reflects the magnitude of metabolic machinery and the associated costs of self‐maintenance in endotherms (organisms able to ...
Jan S. Boratyński +4 more
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Are Hibernators Toast? Global Climate Change and Prolonged Seasonal Hibernation [PDF]
Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.This review examines how global climate change impacts mammalian hibernators, emphasizing physiological, ecological and phenological aspects. Many hibernating species already inhabit extreme environments, thus are at risk as climate variability intensifies.
Kathrin H. Dausmann +1 more
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Flexibility Is Costly: Hidden Physiological Damage From Seasonal Phenotypic Transitions in Heterothermic Species [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 Heterothermy allows organisms to cope with fluctuating environmental conditions. The use of regulated hypometabolism allows seasonal heterothermic species to cope with annual resource shortages and thus to maximize survival during the unfavorable season.
Julie Landes +4 more
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Pronounced differences in heart rate and metabolism distinguish daily torpor and short-term hibernation in two bat species [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Torpor, and its differential expression, is essential to the survival of many mammals and birds. Physiological characteristics of torpor appear to vary between those species that express strict daily heterothermy and those capable of multiday hibernation,
Shannon E. Currie +2 more
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Ecology and EvolutionIn winter, small birds may be able to reduce their energy expenditure by decreasing daytime body temperature (Tb). While the use of reduced Tb during the active‐phase is not well understood, one factor predicted to shape Tb and heterothermy is food ...
Deborah M. Hawkshaw, Kimberley J. Mathot
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Long-term survival, temperature, and torpor patterns [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Mammalian and avian torpor is highly effective in reducing energy expenditure. However, the extent of energy savings achieved and thus long-term survival appear to differ between species capable of multiday hibernation and species restricted to daily ...
Fritz Geiser, Thomas Ruf
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Heterothermy as the Norm, Homeothermy as the Exception: Variable Torpor Patterns in the South American Marsupial Monito del Monte (Dromiciops gliroides) [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 Hibernation (i.e., multiday torpor) is considered an adaptive strategy of mammals to face seasonal environmental challenges such as food, cold, and/or water shortage.
Roberto F. Nespolo +8 more
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Novel method to investigate thermal exchange rates in small, terrestrial ectotherms: A proof-of-concept on the gecko Tarentola mauritanica. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThermoregulating ectotherms may resort to different external heat sources to modulate their body temperature through an array of behavioural and physiological adaptations which modulate heat exchange with the environment and its distribution across the ...
Gabriel Mochales-Riaño +6 more
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Editorial: Torpor and hibernation: metabolic and physiological paradigms [PDF]
Frontiers in PhysiologySylvain Giroud +4 more
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