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Ecophysiology: responses to environmental stressors and change

In the face of rapid and extensive human-induced environmental change, understanding the mechanistic and adaptive responses of animals to environmental drivers is becoming increasingly important. This collection of papers – a subset of the research JEB has published in this area since 2016 – highlights the biochemical and physiological responses of a variety of organisms – from invertebrates to mammals – exposed to a broad range of environmental factors, including temperature, pH, hypoxia, increasing altitude, UV radiation and dehydration stress.

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Sex-specific performance, trade-offs and trait repeatability across the lifetime of the world's largest semelparous mammal ( Dasyurus hallucatus )

Gabriella R. Sparkes; Jaime Heiniger; Nicholas M. A. Smith; Vincent Careau; Ami F. Amir Abdul Nasir; Skye F. Cameron; Robbie S. Wilson

07 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249969

THEORY & MODELLING

The effects of genome size and climate on basal metabolic rate variation in rodents

Ana Paula Cutrera; Facundo Luna

04 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249864

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Transcriptomic reaction norms highlight metabolic depression as a divergence in phenotypic plasticity between oyster species under ocean acidification

Mathieu Lutier; Fabrice Pernet; Vincent Vanaa; Carole Di Poi; Jérémy Le Luyer

04 April 2025

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249458

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Linking warmer nest temperatures to reduced body size in seabird nestlings: possible mitochondrial bioenergetic and proteomic mechanisms

Stefania Casagrande; Giacomo Dell'Omo

28 March 2025

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249880

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Positive consequences of group living among male bats during spermatogenesis

Ewa Komar; Paulina A. Szafrańska; Dina K. N. Dechmann; Lara Keicher; Dominika Koprowska; J. Ryan Shipley; Ireneusz Ruczyński

26 March 2025

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.250058

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Size-specific strategies of sympatric cetaceans to reduce heat loss

Maria Glarou; Marianne Helene Rasmussen; Alyssa Poldner; Silva Naomi Sophie Ruppert; Dido Sotiropoulou; Zaynab Sadozai; Małgorzata Jarzynowska; Maria Refsgaard Iversen; Guðjón Már Sigurðsson; Sverrir Daníel Halldórsson; Valerie Chosson; Phillip J. Clapham; Yulia Ivashchenko; Dmitry Tormosov; Fredrik Christiansen

26 March 2025

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249356

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Metabolic responses provide insight into interspecific variation in heat tolerance of three co-existing pest aphid species

Yuan-Jie Li; Chun-Sen Ma; Nathalie Le Bris; Hervé Colinet; David Renault

19 March 2025

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249365

SHORT COMMUNICATION

Exploring thermal tolerance across time and space in a tropical bivalve, Pinctada margaritifera

Klervi Lugue; Cristián J. Monaco; Erwan Vigouroux; Manaarii Sham Koua; Jérémie Vidal-Dupiol; Guillaume Mitta; Jérémy Le Luyer

14 March 2025

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249651