Antelope adaptations to counteract overheating and water deficit in arid environments

作     者：David BLANK LI Yaoming David BLANK;LI Yaoming

作者机构：Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central AsiaBishkekKyrgyzstan State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis EcologyXinjiang Institute of Ecology and GeographyChinese Academy of SciencesUrumqi 830011China University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100049China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Arid Land》 (干旱区科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第14卷第10期

页      面：1069-1085页

核心收录：

学科分类：0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 07[理学] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：the Third Xinjiang Scientific Expedition Program(2021xjkk0603) 

主　　题：antelopes desert antelopes behavioral mechanisms drinking water water loss behaviors arid environments 

摘      要：Many arid areas have very severe climates with extremely high summer temperatures,strong solar radiation,and a lack of drinking water during the driest ***,antelopes living in arid areas are forced to solve two main problems:avoiding overheating and maintaining water ***,there are physiological,morphological,and behavioral mechanisms for antelope adaptations to arid *** the mechanisms,behavioral adjustments have a minimal cost and are activated first,while physiological mechanisms are the most energetically costly and involve adaptations to high temperatures when other mechanisms are *** previous publications,some examples of the antelope behavioral adaptations have been described only rarely,while in this review,we try to clarify all available information on the adaptations of antelopes living in arid areas to their native environments,paying particular attention to behavioral *** mechanisms,especially daily activity,diet and microclimate selection,and migrations,are so important and commonly used by antelopes in natural conditions,in which physiological mechanisms are usually not *** adjust their behaviors according to environmental changes so successfully that purely physiological mechanisms are discovered under laboratory conditions;for example,adaptive heterothermia or selective brain cooling phenomenon is difficult to observe in their natural *** review provides a better understanding of the main behavioral mechanisms of antelope adaptations to arid environments and allows for the identification of the key factors for successful conservation of antelopes in their natural habitats.