How is Climate Change Affecting Hibernation Patterns of Animals?

Think hibernation is just a nap bears take during the wintertime? It’s way more complicated–and climate based. With climate change happening, how will hibernating animals be affected and will animals who don’t hibernate now begin to?


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Credits:
Executive Producers:
George Zaidan
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Elaine Seward
Andrew Sobey
Darren Weaver

Writer/Host:
Alex Dainis, PhD

Scientific consultants:
Michelle Boucher, PhD
Sarah Mohr, Yale
Elena Gracheva, PhD
Brianne Raccor, PhD


Sources:

What is hibernation?
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-cellbio-012820-095945
https://nature.discoveryplace.org/blog/ask-a-naturalist-hibernation-vs.-brumation-vs.-estivation#:~:text=Brumation%20is%20known%20as%20the%20hibernation%20for%20cold%2Dblooded%20animals.&text=Their%20activity%2C%20body%20temperature%2C%20heart,do%20not%20move%20at%20all

Fat tailed lemurs
https://www.nature.com/articles/429825a
DOI 10.1007/s00360-002-0300-1
https://lemur.duke.edu/discover/meet-the-lemurs/fat-tailed-dwarf-lemur/

What is metabolism?
https://www.livescience.com/metabolism

How does metabolism change in hibernation?
https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/228829
https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/228829

Metabolism genetics
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15506953/
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/8/8/2413/2198153
https://academic.oup.com/biohorizons/article/doi/10.1093/biohorizons/hzy002/4969915
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/89/15/7119.full.pdf
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-31506-2

Examples of climate change affecting hibernation
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/102/2/574/6224539
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/102/2/574/6224539
https://news.fordham.edu/inside-fordham/scientist-charts-effects-of-climate-change-on-hibernating-chipmunks/
https://news.fordham.edu/inside-fordham/scientist-charts-effects-of-climate-change-on-hibernating-chipmunks/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236230921_The_Relationship_between_Climate_Warming_and_Hibernation_in_Mammals
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/102/2/574/6224539?login=true

Examples of warmer temps increasing hibernation
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120808132707.htm
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232694352_Population_and_habitat_relationships_of_Piute_ground_squirrels_in_southwest_Idaho
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/een.13081

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