Carsten Schradin

Why Harshness Is not Stress – and Why That Matters in a Warming World Schradin, C., Pillay, N. and Rimbach, R. (2026). Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results from a 20-year-long case study in African striped mice…

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Tomorrow FINE Spring 2026 will start. The 12th season of this free online seminar on social evolution.

FINE presentation
February 24th 2026
Erin Vogel, Rutgers University, USA
Title: Slow Life History in Wild Orangutans: Adaptations and Evolution

Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal behaviour - Nature Expression of agouti signalling protein in neurons in the medial preoptic area is increased by group housing and negatively associated with care, and overexpression of Agouti reduces care and enhances...

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The 12th season of FINE starts the 24th of February with an exciting program.
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Changes in phenology mediate vertebrate population responses to temperature globally - Nature Communications Climate change can alter when and how animals grow, breed, and migrate, but it is unclear whether this allows populations to persist. This global study shows that shifts in seasonal timing are key to ...

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How to Communicate with the Public as a Scientist Post provided by Carsten Schradin. Science is about creating knowledge. Yet knowledge only becomes meaningful once it is shared and understood by others. Publishing your research in journals reache…

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Screenshot of first page of the PDF of the Research Article, Seasonal increase in blood serum osmolality reflects environmental harshness in the striped mouse: a decade-long field study, by Carsten Schradin, Aurelie Vinot, Neville Pillay, Antoine Stier and Lindelani Makuya. The publishing information (top line) states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb251392. doi:10.1242/jeb.251392. The first sentence of the Abstract reads: 'Animals in arid environments must maintain water balance despite persistent drought, heat and low food availability'.

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Science at Risk: The Urgent Need for Institutional Support of Long-Term Ecological and Evolutionary Research in an Era of Data Manipulation and Disinformation Abstract. Planet Earth and the biodiversity it supports are in crisis. The human impact on terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems and the hundreds

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Hotter weather thickens the blood of wild mammals: in a world first we traced this in African striped mice using 12 years’ worth of blood samples African striped mice are used to desert conditions but are showing dehydration as climate change heats up their environment.

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Co‐BreeD: A milestone resource for studies on cooperative breeding This is a research highlight for a paper introduces a Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD), which is an open, peer-reviewed resource that collects data on cooperative breeding across birds and ma...

Co‐BreeD: A milestone resource for studies on cooperative breeding - Culina - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sex-specific differences in daily ranges and home ranges as determined by GPS data loggers in a small central place forager - Mammalian Biology Animals use home ranges for daily activities such as foraging, mating, and caring for young. Home ranges are often smaller than daily ranges — the areas used within a single day — though the two can b...

Here @linde-makuya.bsky.social shows that in the central place foragers bush Karoo rat, daily ranges are a very good estimate for home ranges.

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Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results from a 20‐year‐long case study in African striped mice Animals in harsh environments rely on specialised adaptations. Two decades of field research on African striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) in the Succulent Karoo semi-desert reveal a distinct ‘harshnes...

Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results from a 20 years long case study in African striped mice
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Seasonal increase in blood serum osmolality reflects environmental harshness in the striped mouse: a decade-long field study Highlighted Article: Osmolality is a biomarker for dehydration in mammals: data from 12 years show that striped mice have increased blood osmolality during the dry season, especially when food availab...

Here we show - using long-term data of 12 years - that serum osmolality increases in striped mice in the dry season, and the harsher the dry season, the stronger the increase, indicating dehydration. @antoinestier.bsky.social @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social
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Concentrated blood reveals when striped mice are dehydrated It doesn't take much imagination to realise that surviving in a desert requires a special kind of toughness. Each year, African striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) living in the Succulent Karoo, South Af...

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Research monopolization in the biological sciences: Charismatic species are partly to blame Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Research monopolization in the biological sciences: Charismatic species are partly to blame - Tensen - People and Nature - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.

An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s....

An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Evolutionary influences on multiple paternity in mammals
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Behavioral ecology: Striped mice speak up The social behaviors of mice have been a focus of laboratory research for over a century. A new study trades the lab for the coastal shrublands of Sou…

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Special FINE 30th September 2025
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion

Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
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DONT miss todays FINE

23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA

Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.

Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
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Songs of the striped mouse show who’s friend and who’s foe Ultrasonic calls, too high for the human ear to detect, convey a wealth of information across the rodent’s territory.

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Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice Perrier et al. show that wild African striped mice (R. pumilio) use short-range ultrasonic signals for large-scale communication. By vocalizing at key territorial locations, they extend the functional...

Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate change Abstract. Responses of natural populations to climate change are driven by how multiple climatic and biotic factors affect survival and reproduction, and u

Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate change url: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...