title: Food shortage can drive body temperature regulation in wild heterothermic vertebrates.
abstract: Food availability is expected to trigger hibernation and torpor (ie heterothermy) use. Yet, laboratory experiments under controlled conditions dominate, and this hypothesis remains largely untested under natural conditions. Further experimental manipulations of food availability must therefore be conducted in the wild, accounting for other covarying environmental stressors.
authors.affiliation: UMR 7179 CNRS-MNHN; Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle ; Paris, France.
authors.forename: Pauline
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vuarin
authors.affiliation: UMR 7179 CNRS-MNHN; Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle ; Paris, France.
authors.forename: Pierre-Yves
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Henry
keywords: field experiments; food availability; food shortage; heterothermy; hibernation; torpor