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what has been observed in Black-capped chickadees from Ohio and Wisconsin (both 1.5 W, Olson et al, 2010) but is lower than that reported for South Dakota (2.1 W, Olson et al, 2010). Determining to what level Msum can increase above the plateau documented here and the influence of ambient conditions in setting maximal Msum will require further investigation.
Mass and sex independent Msum was also related to residual absolute humidity following a U-shape pattem. For a given ambient temperaturę, residual Msum was higher when the air contained both relatively Iow and high amounts of water vapour. Dry air favours evaporation and the loss of body heat (Webster & King, 1987). It is therefore not suiprising to see that birds tended to maintain a higher thermogenic capacity when conditions were dry for a given temperaturę. In contrast, finding elevated Msums at high levels of humidity came as a surprise as one would expect the effect of humidity on heat loss to be negligible in the cold due to condensation. However, it is worth noting that 43% of our sample has been collected during days where minimal ambient temperaturę was above 0°C (figurę 2.3b) and 35% of our measures were obtained when temperatures were above the freezing point but still below the lower critical temperaturę for chickadees (16°C in winter and 19.9°C in summer, Cooper & Swanson, 1994). It is therefore conceivable that at temperatures above 0°C, water vapour increased heat transfer through air and thus contributed to increase body heat loss and, conseąuently, individual’s maximal thermogenic capacity. We nevertheless must emphasize that the number of observations at high levels of humidity, where residual Msum was found to increase, were relatively few and contained measurements on days where temperatures were above the lower critical temperaturę (figurę 2.3b). Although the cooling effect of water vapour at these temperatures was apparently sufficient to trigger an upregulation of Msum, this interpretation must nonetheless be considered with caution and requires further investigations.
Residual Msum varied with temperaturę and humidity but did not differ among individual birds. Therefore, for a given mass and sex, individual chickadees expressed similar variations in Msum throughout the year (scenario 3). As maximal thermogenic capacity is thought to reflect long-term cold endurance (Swanson, 2001) and survival (Jackson et al., 2001), this suggests that Msum could be under stabilizing selection pressure, which would work to eliminate extreme phenotypes. Theoretically, individuals with Iow levels of Msum may not be able to survive episodes of prolonged cold spells while constantly maintaining a higher capacity than required
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