Many birds and mammals drastically reduce their energy expenditure during times of cold
exposure, food shortage, or drought, by temporarily abandoning euthermia, ie the …

Various animals across the tree of life express some form of programmed dormancy (eg
hibernation, diapause) to maximize fitness in highly seasonal environments. The integrated …

The last 'hibernation book'was published in 1982, nearly 40 years ago, so clearly an update
was needed. The options were a book written by a single author or an edited book written by …

The impact and implications of climate change for bats Page 1 REVIEW The impact and
implications of climate change for bats Hayley A. SHERWIN School of Biological Sciences …

Nest or roost temperature (T roost) is thought to impact reproductive fitness in many
endotherms but few studies have directly tested the hypothesis that naturally occurring …

Recent palaeontological data and novel physiological hypotheses now allow a timescaled
reconstruction of the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals. A three‐phase iterative …

Increased winter survival by reducing energy expenditure in adult animals is often viewed as
the primary function of torpor. However, torpor has many other functions that ultimately …

Animals must balance their energy budgets even when confronted with periodic food
shortages and/or adverse environmental conditions. Especially, small endothermic animals …

Humans have shared buildings with bats for thousands of years, probably as early as first
humans built primitive huts. Indeed, many bat species can be defined as synanthropic, ie …

The evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals was one of the most important events in
the evolution of the vertebrates. Past tests of hypotheses on the evolution of endothermy in …