Keeping up with environmental change: the importance of sociality

J Komdeur, L Ma - Ethology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the current era of rapid climate change, populations are facing environments in which
food availability can quickly decline or become highly unpredictable. These conditions may …

Effects of climate change on life‐history traits in hibernating mammals

R Findlay‐Robinson, VB Deecke, A Weatherall… - Mammal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Animals can respond to climate change through changes in behaviour, morphology or life‐
history traits. Changes in life‐history traits do not occur independently, as they trade off or co …

Fifty years of data show the effects of climate on overall skull size and the extent of seasonal reversible skull size changes (Dehnel's phenomenon) in the common …

JRE Taylor, M Muturi, J Lázaro, K Zub… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate change affects many aspects of biology and has been shown to cause body
size changes in animals. However, suitable datasets allowing the analysis of long‐term …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling the effects of obesity and high-fat diet on glucose homeostasis using a photoperiod induced obesity model implicates ectopic fat deposition as a …

DB Yang, L Gao, XY Liu, YC Xu, C Hambly… - Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Obesity in laboratory rodents is generally induced by feeding them a high fat diet
(HFD). This model does not permit separation of the impact of the HFD from the resultant …

Seasonal climate effects on the survival of a hibernating mammal

CA Falvo, DN Koons, LM Aubry - Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate change and associated regional climate variability is impacting the
phenology of many species, ultimately altering individual fitness and population dynamics …

Disentangling evolutionary, plastic and demographic processes underlying trait dynamics: a review of four frameworks

KJ van Benthem, M Bruijning, T Bonnet… - Methods in Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Biologists are increasingly interested in decomposing trait dynamics into underlying
processes, such as evolution, plasticity and demography. Four important frameworks that …

Distinct body-size responses to warming climate in three rodent species

K Li, S Sommer, Z Yang, Y Guo… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In mammals, body-size responses to warming climates are diverse, and the mechanisms
underlying these different responses have been little investigated. Using temporal and …

Using different body size measures can lead to different conclusions about the effects of climate change

LD Bailey, LEB Kruuk, R Allen, M Clayton… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Declining animal body size has been proposed as a general response to increasing
global temperatures that should be observed across a broad biogeographical scale …

Coping with seasonality: dynamics of adult body mass and survival in an alpine hibernator

B Carrier, S Hamel, M Garel, SD Côté - Oikos, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Alpine mammals are highly vulnerable to current and projected climate change because
they are confined to a certain elevation range. Physiological and behavioural adaptations in …

Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal

CS Philson, C Bruebach, T Bastian, B Barr… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2024 - Springer
Across animal systems, abiotic environmental features, including timing of seasonal events
and weather patterns, affect fitness. An individual's degree of social integration also has …