Small Tropical Mammals Can Take the Heat: High Upper Limits of Thermoneutrality in a Bornean Treeshrew

• Main Authors: Thonis, Anna, Ceballos, Ruben Michael, Tuen, Andrew A., Lovegrove, Barry G., Levesque, Danielle L.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Chicago Press 2020
• Subjects: Q Science (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31224/1/10.1086%40708467.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31224/; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32196407/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Tropical ectotherms are generally believed to be more vulnerable to global heating than temperate species. Currently, however, we have insufficient knowledge of the thermoregulatory physiology of equatorial tropical mammals, particularly of small diurnal mammals, to enable similar predictions. In th...