ArticleBiology letters2023
Small increases in ambient temperature reduce offspring body mass in an equatorial mammal.
Article in Biology letters, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- The effects of climate and land cover on hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) body mass over space and time.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Imaginal discs produce neuropeptide-like precursor 1 to alleviate ER stress in response to warm temperatures.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Dwarf Mongooses Lose Body Mass in Hot Weather due to Limited Behavioural Plasticity.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Caspian Red Deer Population Dynamics Under Changing Climate Conditions in Central Alborz: Two Decades of Conservation En Route to Restoration.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Lactation at hot temperature: a test of heat dissipation limitation in mice divergently selected for basal metabolic rate.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Small increases in ambient temperature reduce offspring body mass in an equatorial mammal.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Reproduction is driven by seasonal environmental variation in an equatorial mammal, the banded mongoose (Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Short-term heat waves have long-term consequences for parents and offspring in stickleback.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Human-induced climate change is leading to temperature rises, along with increases in the frequency and intensity of heatwaves. Many animals respond to high temperatures through behavioural thermoregulation, for example by resting in the shade, but this may impose opportunity costs by reducing foraging time (therefore energy supply), and so may be most effective when food is abundant. However, the heat dissipation limit (HDL) theory proposes that even when energy supply is plentiful, high temperatures can still have negative effects. This is because dissipating excess heat becomes harder, which limits processes that generate heat such as lactation. We tested predictions from HDL on a wild, equatorial population of banded mongooses (
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.