• DOI:10.1007/s00442-015-3328-0
Corpus ID: 17050304

When to initiate torpor use? Food availability times the transition to winter phenotype in a tropical heterotherm

@article{Vuarin2015WhenTI,
  title={When to initiate torpor use? Food availability times the transition to winter phenotype in a tropical heterotherm},
  author={Pauline Vuarin and Melanie Dammhahn and P. Kappeler and P. Henry},
  journal={Oecologia},
  year={2015},
  volume={179},
  pages={43-53}
}

• Pauline Vuarin, Melanie Dammhahn, +1 author P. Henry
• Published 2015
• Biology, Medicine
• Oecologia

Timing of winter phenotype expression determines individual chances of survival until the next reproductive season. Environmental cues triggering this seasonal phenotypic transition have rarely been investigated, although they play a central role in the compensation of climatic fluctuations via plastic phenotypic adjustments. Initiation of winter daily torpor use—a widespread energy-saving phenotype—could be primarily timed according to anticipatory seasonal cues (anticipatory cues hypothesis… Expand

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