Journal article
Limited heat tolerance in an Arctic passerine: Thermoregulatory implications for cold‐specialized birds in a rapidly warming world
Abstract
Arctic animals inhabit some of the coldest environments on the planet and have evolved physiological mechanisms for minimizing heat loss under extreme cold. However, the Arctic is warming faster than the global average and how well Arctic animals tolerate even moderately high air temperatures (T a) is unknown.Using flow-through respirometry, we investigated the heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity of snow buntings (Plectrophenax …
Authors
O'Connor RS; Le Pogam A; Young KG; Robitaille F; Choy ES; Love OP; Elliott KH; Hargreaves AL; Berteaux D; Tam A
Journal
Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 1609–1619
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
February 2021
DOI
10.1002/ece3.7141
ISSN
2045-7758