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Living in a Seasonal World

Thermoregulatory and Metabolic Adaptations

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Ruf

    1. Forschungsinst. Wildtierkunde und, Ökologie, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

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  2. Claudia Bieber

    1. Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, Vienna, Austria

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  3. Walter Arnold

    1. Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, Vienna, Austria

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  4. Eva Millesi

    1. , Dept. of Behavioural Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  • Summarizes the most up-to-date information on seasonal adaptation in animals

  • Chapters correspond to presentations to be given at the 14th International Hibernation Symposium

  • Serves as the cutting-edge reference for graduate students and scientists working in this field of physiology and zoology

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (47 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Evolution and Ecophysiology of Torpor

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Single Origin of Heterothermy in Mammals

      • Barry G. Lovegrove
      Pages 3-11

    3. Afrotropical Heterothermy: A Continuum of Possibilities

      • Kathrin H. Dausmann, Julia Nowack, Susanne Kobbe, Nomakwezi Mzilikazi
      Pages 13-27

    4. Tropical Heterothermy: Does the Exception Prove the Rule or Force a Re-Definition?

      • Cindy I. Canale, Danielle L. Levesque, Barry G. Lovegrove
      Pages 29-40

    5. Hibernation in Free-Ranging African Woodland Dormice, Graphiurus murinus

      • Nomakwezi Mzilikazi, Zimkitha Madikiza, Rebecca Oelkrug, Roderick M. Baxter
      Pages 41-50

    6. Evolutionary Ecology of Mammalian Hibernation Phenology

      • Jeffrey E. Lane
      Pages 51-61

    7. Interrelationships Among Timing of Hibernation, Reproduction, and Warming Soil in Free-Living Female Arctic Ground Squirrels

      • Cory T. Williams, Michael J. Sheriff, Franziska Kohl, Brian M. Barnes, C. Loren Buck
      Pages 63-72

    8. Assessing the Effect of Climate Change on Hibernating Mammals Using Nonlinear Mixed Effects Method

      • István Németh
      Pages 73-84

    9. Impact of Climatic Variation on the Hibernation Physiology of Muscardinus avellanarius

      • Iris Pretzlaff, Kathrin H. Dausmann
      Pages 85-97

    10. Comparison of Variables of Torpor Between Populations of a Hibernating Subtropical/Tropical Bat at Different Latitudes

      • Clare Stawski
      Pages 99-108

    11. The Other Functions of Torpor

      • Fritz Geiser, R. Mark Brigham
      Pages 109-121

    12. Survival, Aging, and Life-History Tactics in Mammalian Hibernators

      • Thomas Ruf, Claudia Bieber, Christopher Turbill
      Pages 123-132

    13. Does Age Matter? Effects of Age on Hibernation Patterns in Edible Dormice (Glis glis)

      • Claudia Bieber, Thomas Ruf
      Pages 133-142

    14. Sex and Seasonality: Reproduction in the Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)

      • Stewart C. Nicol, Gemma E. Morrow
      Pages 143-153

    15. Sex Differences in Foraging Behaviour, Body Fat and Hibernation Patterns of Free-Ranging Common Hamsters

      • Carina Siutz, Marc Pluch, Thomas Ruf, Eva Millesi
      Pages 155-165

    16. Summer Torpor and Sexual Segregation in the Subtropical Bat Rhinopoma microphyllum

      • Eran Levin, Amos Ar, Yoram Yom-Tov, Noga Kronfeld-Schor
      Pages 167-174

    17. Heterothermy in Caprimulgid Birds: A Review of Inter- and Intraspecific Variation in Free-Ranging Populations

      • R. M. Brigham, A. E. McKechnie, L. I. Doucette, F. Geiser
      Pages 175-187

  3. Physiology of the Torpid State

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. The Brain at Low Temperature: Tau Hyperphosphorylation Dynamics in Hibernation Torpor

      • A. S. Boerema, J. N. Keijser, H. R. Bouma, E. A. van der Zee, A. M. Strijkstra
      Pages 191-199
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This book summarises the newest information on seasonal adaptation in animals. Topics include animal hibernation, daily torpor, thermoregulation, heat production, metabolic depression, biochemical adaptations, neurophysiology and energy balance. The contributors to this book present interdisciplinary research at multiple levels ranging from the molecular to the ecophysiological, as well as evolutionary approaches. The chapters of this book provide original data not published elsewhere, which makes it the most up-to-date, comprehensive source of information on these fields.

The book’s subchapters correspond to presentations given at the 14th International Hibernation Symposium in August 2012 in Austria. This is a very successful series of symposia (held every four years since 1959) that attracts leading researchers in the field. Like the past symposia, this meeting – and consequently the book – is aimed not only at hibernation but at covering the full range of animal adaptations to seasonal environments. For the next four years, this book will serve as the cutting-edge reference work for graduate students and scientists active in this field of physiology and ecology.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Forschungsinst. Wildtierkunde und, Ökologie, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

    Thomas Ruf

  • Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, Vienna, Austria

    Claudia Bieber, Walter Arnold

  • , Dept. of Behavioural Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Eva Millesi

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