Laura van Rosmalen, Jayme van Dalum, Daniel Appenroth, Renzo T M Roodenrijs, Lauren de Wit, David G Hazlerigg, Roelof A Hut
Global warming is predicted to have major effects on the annual time windows during which species may successfully reproduce. At the organismal level, climatic shifts engage with the control mechanism for reproductive seasonality. In mammals, laboratory studies on neuroendocrine mechanism emphasize photoperiod as a predictive cue, but this is based on a restricted group of species. In contrast, field-oriented comparative analyses demonstrate that proximate bioenergetic effects on the reproductive axis are a major determinant of seasonal reproductive timing...
May 2021: FASEB Journal: Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology