A global heterothermic continuum in mammals
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Abstract
Abstract Aim The ability of endotherms to physiologically regulate body temperature ( T b ) is presumed to be important in the adaptive radiation of birds and mammals. Recently, attention has shifted towards determining the extent and energetic significance of T b variation documented in an ever‐expanding list of species. Thus, we provide the first global synthesis of ecological and evolutionary correlates of variation in mammalian T b . Location World‐wide Methods We conducted a phylogenetically informed analysis of T b variation using two complementary metrics, namely T hermoregulatory S cope ( TS ) and H eterothermy I ndex ( HI ), that treat T b variation as a continuous variable. We included morphological (e.g. body mass), ecological (e.g. food habits) and environmental (e.g. latitude) correlates in the analysis. Results Among 560 mammal species included in the TS analysis, T b relates most strongly to body mass (included in all models), season (relative parameter weight: 0.95), absolute latitude (0.80) and hoarding behavior (0.72), with small‐bodied, high latitude and non‐hoarding species expressing the most T b variation. Small‐bodied and high latitude species also express a greater range of thermoregulatory patterns than large‐bodied and low latitude species. Results were generally similar in HI analysis, but in summer the extent of heterothermy decreases with latitude. Main conclusions Mammalian heterothermy is related to evolutionary history, climate conditions constraining minimum T b , resource conditions mediating energy supply for maintaining high T b , and latitudinal variation in the nature of seasonality. Our analysis further shows that traditional classification of mammals as hibernators, daily heterotherms or homeotherms is clouded or possibly misleading.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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