Winter is an energetically challenging season for endotherms in temperate and northern climates because seasonally low food availability is paired with high costs for thermoregulation. In response to this apparent energetic mis-match, animals can use both physiological and behavioural adaptations to decrease energy requirements. I investigated the effects of resource levels and air temperatures (Ta) on body temperature patterns (Tb; chapter 1), as well as activity patterns and field metabolic rate (FMR; chapter 2) of a northern population of red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) in winter. Squirrels provided with supplemental food maintained consistently elevated Tb compared to control animals. Tb was positively re...
The influence of major thermosensory sites has not been clearly defined for the hibernator. The mann...
Summary. Seasonal energy intake was estimated for ten populations of Columbian ground squirrels (Spe...
How endothermic animals manage and allocate energy to critical processes (maintenance, reproduction,...
Temperature is one of the most important environmental variables impacting organisms. For endotherms...
Energy is a currency of life because all organisms must expend energy to survive and reproduce. I ex...
Organisms survive environmental variation by combining homeostatic regulation of critical states wit...
There is renewed focus on the ecological determinants of animal metabolism and recent comparative an...
There is renewed focus on the ecological determinants of animal metabolism and recent comparative an...
Grey squirrels are polygynous breeders that reproduce in midwinter and early summer. Bimodal changes...
Animals switch between inactive and active states, simultaneously impacting their energy intake, ene...
In coining the term "metabolic geography", this thesis investigates geographic variation in metaboli...
Climate change has the potential to upset entire ecological systems, making predictive models of the...
Long‐term studies of wild animals provide the opportunity to investigate how phenotypic plasticity i...
Background Empirical tests that link temperature-mediated changes in behaviour (activity and reso...
Studying animals under natural or semi‐natural conditions is essential to better understand the impl...
The influence of major thermosensory sites has not been clearly defined for the hibernator. The mann...
Summary. Seasonal energy intake was estimated for ten populations of Columbian ground squirrels (Spe...
How endothermic animals manage and allocate energy to critical processes (maintenance, reproduction,...
Temperature is one of the most important environmental variables impacting organisms. For endotherms...
Energy is a currency of life because all organisms must expend energy to survive and reproduce. I ex...
Organisms survive environmental variation by combining homeostatic regulation of critical states wit...
There is renewed focus on the ecological determinants of animal metabolism and recent comparative an...
There is renewed focus on the ecological determinants of animal metabolism and recent comparative an...
Grey squirrels are polygynous breeders that reproduce in midwinter and early summer. Bimodal changes...
Animals switch between inactive and active states, simultaneously impacting their energy intake, ene...
In coining the term "metabolic geography", this thesis investigates geographic variation in metaboli...
Climate change has the potential to upset entire ecological systems, making predictive models of the...
Long‐term studies of wild animals provide the opportunity to investigate how phenotypic plasticity i...
Background Empirical tests that link temperature-mediated changes in behaviour (activity and reso...
Studying animals under natural or semi‐natural conditions is essential to better understand the impl...
The influence of major thermosensory sites has not been clearly defined for the hibernator. The mann...
Summary. Seasonal energy intake was estimated for ten populations of Columbian ground squirrels (Spe...
How endothermic animals manage and allocate energy to critical processes (maintenance, reproduction,...