... traits vary with fine-scale microclimate, but this has received less attention in endotherms. Here, we test the hypothesis that avian thermoregulation varies with microclimate and behavioural constraints in a non-passerine bird. Male and female southern yellow-billed hornbills ( Tockus leucomelas...

... of research on TSD. However, recent advances in microclimate and developmental modeling should allow us to move farther away from relatively coarse metrics with limited predictive capacity and towards a fully mechanistic model of TSD that can predict incubation conditions and phenotypic outcomes for a variety...

... effective shore level on patterns of intertidal zonation . Limnol. Oceanogr.   48 , 1498 - 1508 . 10.4319/lo.2003.48.4.1498 Helmuth , B. S. T. ( 1998 ). Intertidal mussel microclimates: predicting the body temperature of a sessile invertebrate . Ecol. Monogr.   68 , 29 - 52 . 10.1890/0012...

...-constructed thermal refuge interacts with egg physiology. * Author for correspondence( [email protected] ) † Present address: Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson,AZ 85721, USA 28 7 2009 2009 microclimate respirometry leaf size critical thermal maximum...

... thirds of metabolic lowering is attributable to the reduction in cold-exposed body surfaces and one third to the mild microclimate created within the groups. Moreover, body temperature adjustments contribute to these energetic benefits: maintaining body temperatures 1°C lower would represent a 7–17...