Small Mammals in Hot Deserts: Some Generalizations Revisited

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Towards a mechanistic understanding of the responses of large terrestrial mammals to heat and aridity associated with climate change (2016, background): “The dissipation of heat by evaporation results in proportionally greater dehydration in smaller mammals than it does in larger mammals, meaning that fossorial or nocturnal activity is obligatory for many small mammals in hot and dry environments [105].”
Physiological Adaptation in Desert Birds (2005, background): “Perhaps the most often cited examples of physiological adaptation to deserts come from work by Schmidt-Nielsen and later by Walsberg on small mammals, kangaroo rats (Dipodomys; Schmidt-Nielsen 1979, Walsberg 2000).”
Physiological Diversity and Its Ecological Implications (2001, background): “Here, it is clear that many of the most familiar generalizations accepted in textbooks and taught to generations of students are misleading (Walsberg 2000).”
Comparative ecology of desert small mammals: a selective review of the past 30 years (2011, background): “Walsberg (2000) and Tracy and Walsberg (2002) clarified additional features of the ecology and physiology of these animals that suggest they are not the pinnacle of desert adaptation as they had been depicted.”