The Physiological Ecology of Vertebrates: A View from Energetics

By B. McNab, James H. Brown. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology

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Expenditure freeze: the metabolic response of small mammals to cold environments (2005, background): “If BMR (the metabolic rate of a resting, post-absorptive endotherm measured within its thermoneutral zone; McNab 2002) largely represents the cost of maintaining the machinery involved in the acquisition, distribution and expenditure of energy (e.g. gut, muscle, liver, heart) and so is a reliable…”
Huddling in groups leads to daily energy savings in free‐living African Four‐Striped Grass Mice, Rhabdomys pumilio (2006, background): “An animal’s fitness depends on its ability to partition time and energy among competing behavioural and physiological demands in a way that optimizes benefits relative to costs (Schoener 1971; McNab 1980, 2002).”
PLANT SECONDARY METABOLITES COMPROMISE THE ENERGY BUDGETS OF SPECIALIST AND GENERALIST MAMMALIAN HERBIVORES (2005, background): “…(Koppel et al. 1981) and could influence BMR. Regulated hypothermia, which is characterized by reduced metabolic rates and body temperature, can increase tolerance to toxins (Gordon et al. 1995) and/or minimize energy expenditure when energy is limited (Carpenter and Hixon 1988, McNab 2002).”
A unifying, eco‐physiological framework for animal dormancy (2020, background): “…a responsive dormancy that occurs in response to food or water shortages (Storey & Storey, 2012), but there are reported instances of aestivation that fall within the quadrant of deep, programmed dormancy (see [21, 24]; Bieber & Ruf, 2009; Dausmann et al., 2004; Hoelzl et al., 2015; McNab, 2002).”
On the use of non‐invasive hormone research in uncontrolled, natural environments: the problem with sex, diet, metabolic rate and the individual (2012, background): “In birds and mammals that maintain a high body temperature also during winter, daily and seasonal fluctuations in ambient temperature may have a large effect on energy metabolism (Dawson, Marsh & Yacoe 1983; McNab 2002).”
Broad-scale ecological implications of ectothermy and endothermy in changing environments (2012, background): “However, some endotherms have likewise done so to avoid periods with low potential activity times or resources (McNab, 2002).”
Behavior and nutritional condition buffer a large‐bodied endotherm against direct and indirect effects of climate (2014, background): “Key words: biophysical model; Blue Mountains, northeastern Oregon, USA; Cervus elaphus; climate change; elk; nutritional condition; resource selection function; Snake River Plain, southeastern Idaho, USA; thermal environment; thermoregulation.”
Environmental influences on regulation of blood plasma/serum components in teleost fishes: a review (2009, unknown): “Perhaps the best known of these organic osmolytes in vertebrate animals is urea, which is retained in high concentrations within cells and/or in the blood of marine elasmobranches, holocephalans, coelacanths, estivating African lungfish, some marine teleosts, as well as in some amphibians (Holmes an”
Beyond the ‘3/4‐power law’: variation in the intra‐and interspecific scaling of metabolic rate in animals (2005, unknown): “In ectothermic animals, ‘ standard rates of metabolism’ are similarly measured in resting, postabsorptive adults at a specific temperature, but do not include a ‘minimal cost of endothermy’ (McNab, 2002).”
Exploration strategies map along fast–slow metabolic and life‐history continua in muroid rodents (2009, background): “From a physiological perspective, personality represents an integrative factor that may explain some of the large interand intra-specific variation in BMR, a physiological trait of high ecological and evolutionary significance (McNab 2002; Speakman, Krol & Johnson 2004).”