ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology2021
Heat tolerance in desert rodents is correlated with microclimate at inter- and intraspecific levels.
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- Arboreal Mammals Are at Risk Under Climate Change: Insights From a Global Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Global change biology · 2026Pooled it
- Body-Size Change in a Rodent Is Affected by Environmental Warming and Population-Specific Thermoneutral Zone.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Evolutionary shifts in the thermal biology of a subterranean mammal: the effect of habitat aridity.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Geothermal stickleback populations prefer cool water despite multigenerational exposure to a warm environment.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Tissue Oxidative Ecology along an Aridity Gradient in a Mammalian Subterranean Species.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Adaptive variation in the upper limits of avian body temperature.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Disparate roost sites drive intraspecific physiological variation in a Malagasy bat.Oecologia · 2022Article
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Abstract
Physiological diversity in thermoregulatory traits has been extensively investigated in both endo- and ectothermic vertebrates, with many studies revealing that thermal physiology has evolved in response to selection arising from climate. The majority of studies have investigated how adaptative variation in thermal physiology is correlated with broad-scale climate, but the role of fine-scale microclimate remains less clear . We hypothesised that the heat tolerance limits and evaporative cooling capacity of desert rodents are correlated with microclimates within species-specific diurnal refugia. We tested predictions arising from this hypothesis by comparing thermoregulation in the heat among arboreal black-tailed tree rats (Thallomys nigricauda), Namaqua rock rats (Micaelamys namaquensis) and hairy-footed gerbils (Gerbillurus paeba). Species and populations that occupy hotter diurnal microsites tolerated air temperatures (T
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