Physiological Adaptation in Desert Birds

By Joseph B. Williams, B. Tieleman. 2005

150 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Avian seasonal metabolic variation in a subtropical desert: basal metabolic rates are lower in winter than in summer (2010, background): “The low overall BMR of desert birds, for instance, is thought to reflect the scarcity and unpredictability of food and water resources in xeric habitats (Tieleman & Williams, 2000, Williams & Tieleman, 2005).”
• Desert-adapted species are vulnerable to climate change: Insights from the warmest region on Earth (2015, background): “As an example, despite having small home ranges, birds (EndDiuS) exhibit reduced metabolism rates, small clutch sizes, and slow nestling developments (Williams and Tieleman, 2005).”
• Sources and significance of variation in basal, summit and maximal metabolic rates in birds (2010, background): “Although scarce and unpredictable rainfall and resultant spatially and temporally unpredictable food supplies have often been invoked as a major factor driving the evolution of reduced metabolic rates in desert organisms (Louw and Seely, 1982; Lovegrove, 2000, 2003; Williams and Tieleman, 2005), two”