Heat stress reduces growth rate of red deer calf: Climate warming implications.

ABSTRACT: Climate models agree in predicting scenarios of global warming. In endothermic species heat stress takes place when they are upper their thermal neutral zone. Any physiological or behavioural mechanism to mitigate heat stress is at the cost of diverting energy from other physiological functions, with negative repercussions for individual fitness. Tolerance to heat stress differs between species, age classes and sexes, those with the highest metabolic rates being the most sensitive to stressing thermal environments. This is especially important during the first months of life, when most growth takes place. Red deer (Cervus elaphus) is supposedly well adapted to a wide range of thermal environments, based on its worldwide distribution range, but little is known about the direct effect that h

SUBMITTER: Perez-Barberia FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7263848 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature