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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

The hummingbird's adipostat: can a simple rule explain torpor frequency and duration in hummingbirds?

Shayne R Halter, Blair O Wolf, Carlos Martinez Del Rio

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Shayne R HalterDepartment of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-3842-1713
Blair O WolfDepartment of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5643-7867
Carlos Martinez Del RioDepartment of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.

Funding

Biology Graduate Student Association, University of New MexicoDepartment of Biology, University of New Mexico, Grove GrantUniversity of New Mexico Graduate and Professional Student Association
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Because hummingbirds are small and have an expensive mode of locomotion, they have constrained energy budgets. Torpor is used to buffer against these energetic challenges, but its frequency and duration vary. We measured lipid content, metabolic rates and torpor use in two species of migrating hummingbirds, calliope (

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BirdsTorporAnimal MigrationAnimalsEnergy MetabolismLipid MetabolismModels, Biologicalhummingbirdslipidmetabolismmigrationrespirometrytorpor

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PMID39809315
PMCPMC11732420

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