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

D Mitchell, EP Snelling, RS Hetem… - Journal of Animal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

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

A Fuller, D Mitchell, SK Maloney… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Mammals in drylands are facing not only increasing heat loads but also reduced water and
food availability as a result of climate change. Insufficient water results in suppression of …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

Mammalian body size is determined by interactions between climate, urbanization, and ecological traits

MM Hantak, BS McLean, D Li, RP Guralnick - Communications Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenically-driven climate warming is a hypothesized driver of animal body size
reductions. Less understood are effects of other human-caused disturbances on body size …

Heat stress and goat welfare: Adaptation and production considerations

V Sejian, MV Silpa, MR Reshma Nair, C Devaraj… - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This review attempts to provide information on the various impacts of heat
stress on the production and welfare variables of goats. Goats are predominantly distributed …

Insect communities under skyglow: diffuse night-time illuminance induces spatio-temporal shifts in movement and predation

A Dyer, R Ryser, U Brose… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is predicted to have far-reaching consequences for natural
ecosystems given its influence on organismal physiology and behaviour, species …

Modeling climate change impacts on the distribution of an endangered brown bear population in its critical habitat in Iran

MR Ashrafzadeh, R Khosravi, A Mohammadi… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change is one of the major challenges to the current conservation of biodiversity.
Here, by using the brown bear, Ursus arctos, in the southernmost limit of its global …

Large herbivore assemblages in a changing climate: incorporating water dependence and thermoregulation

MP Veldhuis, ES Kihwele, J Cromsigt, JO Ogutu… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The coexistence of different species of large herbivores (ungulates) in grasslands and
savannas has fascinated ecologists for decades. However, changes in climate, land‐use …

Predation risk constrains herbivores' adaptive capacity to warming

MP Veldhuis, TR Hofmeester, G Balme… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Global warming compels larger endothermic animals to adapt either physiologically or
behaviourally to avoid thermal stress, especially in tropical ecosystems. Their adaptive …

[HTML][HTML] The four antelope species on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau face habitat loss and redistribution to higher latitudes under climate change

J Zhang, F Jiang, G Li, W Qin, T Wu, F Xu, Y Hou… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change is predicted to directly or indirectly affect species distribution and
abundance, especially the species that live on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau that is highly …