Warmer ambient temperatures reduce protein intake by a mammalian folivore

PK Beale, WJ Foley, BD Moore… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The interplay between ambient temperature and nutrition in wild herbivores is frequently
overlooked, despite the fundamental importance of food. We tested whether different …

Comparative transcriptomes reveal geographic differences in the ability of the liver of plateau zokors (Eospalax baileyi) to respond and adapt to toxic plants

Y Tan, Y Wang, Q Liu, Z Wang, S Shi, J Su - BMC genomics, 2023 - Springer
Background Environmental changes are expected to intensify in the future. The invasion of
toxic plants under environmental changes may change herbivore feeding environments …

[HTML][HTML] Managing an arid ranch in the 21st century: New technologies for novel ecosystems

BT Bestelmeyer, S Utsumi, S McCord, DM Browning… - Rangelands, 2023 - Elsevier
On the Ground• Rates of ecosystem change are accelerating in rangelands, but
development of technologies to detect and react to change is accelerating at the same time.• …

3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments

K Alujević, L Bakewell, IT Clifton, CL Cox… - Journal of Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Predicting ecological responses to rapid environmental change has become one of the
greatest challenges of modern biology. One of the major hurdles in forecasting these …

[PDF][PDF] GOPHER TORTOISES (GOPHERUS POLYPHEMUS) AS MICROCLIMATE ENGINEERS: FINE-SCALE ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY PROMOTES …

JM Carroll, R Carroll, N Bray… - … Conservation and Biology, 2023 - herpconbio.org
Understanding how organisms respond to thermal heterogeneity (ie, spatio-temporal
variation of thermal conditions) requires quantification of thermal environments collected at …