Adaptation to Heat and Water Shortage in Large, Arid-Zone Mammals

作者:Fuller Andrea*; Hetem Robyn S; Maloney Shane K; Mitchell Duncan
来源:Physiology, 2014, 29(3): 159-167.
DOI:10.1152/physiol.00049.2013

摘要

Although laboratory studies of large mammals have revealed valuable information on thermoregulation, such studies cannot predict accurately how animals respond in their natural habitats. Through insights obtained on thermoregulatory behavior, body temperature variability, and selective brain cooling in free-living mammals, we show here how we can better understand the physiological capacity of large mammals to cope with hotter and drier arid-zone habitats likely with climate change.

  • 出版日期2014-5