ArticleBiology letters2015
The importance of mammalian torpor for survival in a post-fire landscape.
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- Fire as a driver and mediator of predator-prey interactions.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Review
- Disparate roost sites drive intraspecific physiological variation in a Malagasy bat.Oecologia · 2022Article
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- Thermal energetics and behaviour of a small, insectivorous marsupial in response to the interacting risks of starvation and predation.Oecologia · 2019Article
- Does aridity affect spatial ecology? Scaling of home range size in small carnivorous marsupials.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2019Article
- Ecological and evolutionary consequences of metabolic rate plasticity in response to environmental change.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Short and hyperthermic torpor responses in the Malagasy bat Macronycteris commersoni reveal a broader hypometabolic scope in heterotherms.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2018Article
- Wildfire smoke impacts activity and energetics of wild Bornean orangutans.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Flexibility is the key: metabolic and thermoregulatory behaviour in a small endotherm.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2018Article
- A burning question: what are the risks and benefits of mammalian torpor during and after fires?Conservation physiology · 2018Review
- More functions of torpor and their roles in a changing world.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2017Review
- Post-fire recovery of torpor and activity patterns of a small mammal.Biology letters · 2017Article
- Phoenix from the Ashes: Fire, Torpor, and the Evolution of Mammalian Endothermy.Frontiers in physiology · 2017Article
- Searching for the Haplorrhine Heterotherm: Field and Laboratory Data of Free-Ranging Tarsiers.Frontiers in physiology · 2017Article
- Post-wildfire physiological ecology of an Australian microbat.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Wildfires have increased in frequency and intensity worldwide with climate change as a main driving factor. While a number of studies have focused on population changes in regard to fires, there are essentially no quantitative data on behavioural and physiological adjustments that are vital for the persistence of individuals during and after fires. Here we show that brown antechinus, a small insectivorous marsupial mammal, (i) endured a prescribed fire in situ, (ii) remained in their scorched home range despite unburned areas nearby, and (iii) substantially increased post-fire torpor use and thus reduced foraging requirements and exposure to predators. Hence, torpor is a physiological adaptation that, although not quantified in this context previously, appears to play a key role in post-fire survival for this and other heterothermic species.
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