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2023
Shankar A, Welch KC Jr., Eberts ER, Geiser F, Halter S, Keicher L, Levesque DL, Nowack J, Wolf BO, Wolfe SW (2023). Daily torpor in birds and mammals: Past, present, and future of the field. Integrative and Comparative Biology: icad095
Levesque DL, Breit AM, Brown E, Nowack J, Welman S (2023) Non-torpid heterothermy in mammals: another category along the homeothermy-hibernation continuum. Integrative and Comparative Biology: icad094
Nowack J, Stawski C, Geiser F and DL Levesque (2023) Rare and opportunistic use of torpor in mammals – an echo from the past? Integrative and Comparative Biology: icad067
Scheun J and J Nowack (2023) Looking ahead: predicting the possible ecological and physiological response of Galago moholi to environmental change. International Journal of Primatology.
Giroud* S/Ragger* MT, Baille A, Hoelzl F, Smith S and J Nowack*/ T Ruf* (2023) Food availability positively affects the survival and somatic maintenance of hibernating garden dormice (Eliomys quercinus). Frontiers in Zoology 20: 19(* shared first/last author)
Nowack J, Mzilikazi N and KH Dausmann (2023). Saving energy via short and shallow torpor bouts. J Therm Biol 114: 103572
2022
Reher S, Rabarison H, Nowack J and KH Dausmann (2022). Limited physiological compensation in response to an acute microclimate change in a Malagasy bat. Front Ecol Evol 10: 10.3389/fevo.2022.779381
Grigg G, Nowack J, Pereira Wilken Bicudo JE, Bal NC, Woodward HN and Seymour RS (2022) Whole body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians. Biol Rev 97:766-801 https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12822
2021
Spießberger M, Hoelzl F, Smith S, Vetter S, Ruf T and J Nowack (2021) The tarnished silver spoon? Trade-off between prenatal growth and telomere length in wild boar. J Evol Biol 00: 1– 10. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13954
Nowack J and Turbill C (2021) Survivable hypothermia or torpor in a wild-living rat: Rare insights broaden our understanding of endothermic physiology. J Comp Physiol B: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00360-021-01416-3
Levesque DL, Nowack J and J Boyles (2021) Body temperature frequency distributions: a tool for assessing thermal performance in endotherms? Front Physiol 12: 760797.
Einwaller J, Meyer LCR, Auer U, Raekallio M, Nowack J, Haw A, Vetter S, Painer J and G Stalder (2021) Cardiovascular effects of intravenous vatinoxan in wild boars (Sus scrofa) anaesthetised with intramuscular medetomidine-tiletamine-zolazepam. Vet Rec: e835. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.835
2020
Giroud S, Nord A, Storey KS and J Nowack (2020) Editorial: Coping with Environmental Fluctuations – Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives. Front Physiol 11: 605186.
Nowack J, Dill V and KH Dausmann (2020) Open-flow respirometry under field conditions: how does the airflow through the nest influence our results? J Therm Biol 92:102667
Dausmann KH, Levesque DL, Wein J and J Nowack (2020) Ambient temperature cycles affect daily torpor and hibernation patterns in Malagasy tenrecs. Front Physiol 11: 522 doi: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00522
Nowack J, Levesque DL, Reher S and KH Dausmann (2020) Variable climates lead to varying phenotypes: ‘weird’ mammalian torpor and lessons from non-Holarctic species. Front Ecol Evol 8:60. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00060
2019
Boyles JG, Levesque DL, Nowack J, Wojciechowski MS, Stawski C, Fuller A, Smit B, Tattersall GJ (2019) An oversimplification of physiological principles leads to flawed macroecological analyses. Ecol Evol 9: 12020-12025. doi:10.1002/ece3.5721
Nowack* J/ Tarmann* I, Hoelzl F, Smith S, Giroud S and T Ruf (2019) Always a price to pay: Hibernation at low temperatures comes with a trade-off between energy savings and telomere damage. Biology Letters https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0466 (* shared first author)
Arnold L, Habe M, Troxler J and J Nowack*/ S Vetter* (2019) Rapid establishment of teat order and allonursing in wild boar. Ethology https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12950 (*shared last author)
Scheun J, Ganswindt A, Geiser F and J Nowack (2019) Non-invasive evaluation of stress hormone responses in a captive population of sugar gliders Petaurus breviceps. Australian Mammalogy https://doi.org/10.1071/AM18044
Nowack J, Vetter S, Stalder G, Painer J, Kral M, Smith S, Le MH, Jurcevic P, Bieber C, Arnold W, and T Ruf (2018) Muscle nonshivering thermogenesis in a feral mammal. Scientific Reports 6: 6378. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-42756-z.
Scheun J, Greef D and J Nowack (2019) Urbanisation as an important driver of nocturnal primate sociality. Primates. doi: 10.1007/s10329-019-00725-0.
2018
Geiser F, Stawski C, Doty AC, Cooper CE and J Nowack (2018) A burning question: what are the risks and benefits of mammalian torpor during and after fires? Conserv Physiol 6: coy057. doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coy057
Nowack J, Stawski C, Körtner, G and F Geiser (2018) Physiological and behavioral responses of an arboreal mammal to smoke and charcoal-ash substrate. Physiol Behav. 184: 116–121. doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.11.020
2017
Nowack J, Giroud S, Arnold W and T Ruf (2017) Muscle nonshivering thermogenesis and its role in the evolution of endothermy. Front Physiol 8: 889. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00889
Geiser F, Stawski C, Wacker CB and J Nowack (2017) Phoenix from the ashes: fire, torpor, and the evolution of mammalian endothermy. Front Physiol 8: 842. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00842
Scheun J, Bennett NC, Nowack J, Laver P and A Ganswindt (2017) Putative drivers of adrenocortical activity in captive African lesser bushbaby, Galago moholi. Can J Zoology. doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2016-0223
Stawski C, Hume T, Körtner G, Currie SE, Nowack J and Geiser F (2017). Post-fire recovery of torpor and activity patterns of a small mammal. Biol Letters 13(5). doi 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0036
Streicher U, Nowack J, Stalder G, Walzer C, Nadler T and T Ruf (2017) Hibernation in pygmy lorises (Nycticebus pygmaeus)- what does it mean? Vietnamese Journal of Primatologie 2(5):51-57
Nowack J, Stawski C and F Geiser (2017) More functions of torpor and their roles in a changing world. J Comp Physiol B doi:10.1007/s00360-017-1100-y
Stawski C, Nowack J, Körtner G and F Geiser (2017) A new cue for torpor induction: charcoal, ash and smoke. J Exp Biol 220: 220-226; doi: 10.1242/jeb.146548
2016
Levesque DL, Nowack J, Stawski C (2016) Modelling mammalian energetics: the heterothermy problem. Climate Change Responses 3:7 doi: 10.1186/s40665-016-0022-3
Scheun J, Bennett NC, Nowack J and A Ganswindt (2016) Reproductive behaviour, testis size and faecal androgen metabolite concentrations in the African lesser bushbaby. J Zool doi:10.1111/jzo.12420
Nowack J, Delesalle M, Stawski C and F Geiser (2016) Can hibernators sense and evade fires? Olfactory acuity and locomotor performance during deep torpor. Sci Nat 103(9-10):73.
Nowack J, Cooper CE and F Geiser (2016) Cool echidnas survive the fire. Proc R Soc B 20160382
Stawski C, Körtner G, Nowack J and F Geiser (2016) Phenotypic plasticity of post-fire activity and thermal biology of a small mammal. Physiol Behav 159: 104–111
Nowack J and F Geiser (2016) Friends with benefits: the role of torpor in groups of torpid and normothermic animals. J Exp Biology 219(4): 590-596
Scheun J, Nowack J, Bennett N and A Ganswindt (2016) Female reproductive activity and its endocrine correlates in the African lesser bushbaby, Galago moholi. J Comp Physiol B. DOI:10.1007/s00360-015-0947-z
2015
Scheun J, Ganswindt A, Bennett NC and J Nowack (2015) The hustle and bustle of city life: monitoring the effects of urbanisation in the African lesser bushbaby. Sci Nat (102): 57
Nowack J, Rojas AD, Körtner G and F Geiser (2015) Snoozing through the storm: torpor use during a natural disaster. Sci Rep 5, doi:10.1038/srep11243
Stawski C, Körtner G, Nowack J and F Geiser (2015) The importance of torpor for survival in a post-fire landscape. Biol Lett 11 (6): 20150134
Reibelt LM and J Nowack (2015) Editorial: Community-based conservation in Madagascar, the ‘cure-all’ solution? MCD 10 (1S):3-5
Nowack J and KH Dausmann (2015) Can heterothermy facilitate the colonization of new habitats? Mammal Rev 45: 117–127
2014
Doty A, Stawski C, Nowack J, Bondarenco A and F Geiser (2014) Increased lyrebird presence in a post-fire landscape. Aust J Zool 63(1): 9-11
Kobbe S, Nowack J and KH Dausmann (2014) Torpor is not the only option: seasonal variations of the thermoneutral zone in a small primate. J Comp Physiol B 184:789-797
Scheun J, Bennett NC, Ganswindt A and J Nowack (2014) Spicing up the menu: evidence of fruit-feeding in Galago moholi. Primates 55(3):359-63
2013
Nowack J, Dausmann KH and N Mzilikazi (2013) Nonshivering thermogenesis in the African lesser bushbaby, Galago moholi. J Exp Biol 216: 3811-3817
Nowack J, Wippich M, Mzilikazi N and KH Dausmann (2013) Surviving the cold, dry period in Africa: behavioral adjustments as an alternative to heterothermy in Galago moholi. Int J Primatol 34: 49-64
Nowack J, Mzilikazi N and KH Dausmann (2013) Torpor as an emergency solution in Galago moholi: heterothermy is triggered by different constraints. J Comp Physiol B 83: 547-556
2012
Dausmann KH, Nowack J, Kobbe S and N Mzilikazi (2012) Afrotropical heterothermy: a continuum of possibilities. In: Living in a Seasonal World. Ruf, C. Bieber, W. Arnold & E. Millesi (Eds.). Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
2010
Nowack J, Mzilikazi N and KH Dausmann (2010) Torpor on demand: heterothermy in the non-lemur primate Galago moholi. PLoS ONE 5(5): e10797. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010797