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ArticleBiology letters2018

Ecological specialization, variability in activity patterns and response to environmental change.

Talisin T Hammond, Rupert Palme, Eileen A Lacey

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Article in Biology letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Measuring avian specialization.Ecology and evolution · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Talisin T HammondMuseum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA talisintess@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-4175-8128
Rupert PalmeDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria.
Eileen A LaceyMuseum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Differences in temporal patterns of activity can modulate the ambient conditions to which organisms are exposed, providing an important mechanism for responding to environmental change. Such differences may be particularly relevant to ecological generalists, which are expected to encounter a wider range of environmental conditions. Here, we compare temporal patterns of activity for partially sympatric populations of a generalist (the lodgepole chipmunk,

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Climate ChangeLocomotionAccelerometryAnimalsCaliforniaCircadian RhythmFecesFemaleGlucocorticoidsMaleSciuridaeTemperatureGlucocorticoidsaccelerometersbehaviourclimate changelocomotionplasticity

Identifiers

PMID29950317
PMCPMC6030591

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