ReviewInternational journal of biometeorology2026
Homeothermy, microclimate and heat tolerance: Evolutionary origins, mechanisms and survival.
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Abstract
Why mammals defend species-specific body temperatures, often across a range extending from the low 30s to around 40 °C, remains a central question in comparative physiology. In this Commentary, it is suggested that mammalian heat tolerance is best understood not through single environmental thresholds or global mean temperature, but through the interaction of microclimate, heat-balance physics, effector coordination and cardiovascular constraint. Using humans as one focal example within a broader comparative framework, it distinguishes endothermy from homeothermy and then consideration as to how different mammalian lineages solve the problem of heat balance through differing combinations of evaporative cooling, behavioural refuge, water conservation, heterothermy and tolerance of transient body temperature elevation. The discussion then addresses mechanistic pathways of heat exchange, emphasising the importance of radiation, airflow and evaporative opportunity within the immediate microclimate, and present a microclimate-linked Arrhenius/Q
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