Determinants of heart rate in Svalbard reindeer reveal mechanisms of seasonal energy management

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Trondrud, L. Monica, Pigeon, Gabriel, Albon, Steve, Arnold, Walter, Evans, Alina L., Irvine, R. Justin, Król, Elżbieta, Ropstad, Erik, Stien, Audun, Veiberg, Vebjørn, Speakman, John R., Loe, Leif Egil
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.Scottish Fish Immunology Research Centre, University of Aberdeen.Environment and Food Security, University of Aberdeen.Energetics Research Group
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: activity; Arctic; plasticity; reproduction; thermoregulation; ungulates; QH301 Biology; General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology; General Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Supplementary Data; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mcvdnck0f [82]; QH301; Svalbard; svalbard reindeer; University Centre in Svalbard
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2164/16961; https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0215; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105739338&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Funding. This study was supported by Norges Miljø- og Biovitenskape- lige Universitet (PhD Grant to L.M.T.) and Norges Forskningsråd (KLIMAFORSK project no. 267613). Acknowledgements. We thank two anonymous reviewers for constructive, detailed and insightful feedback that helped to strengthen our manuscript. We thank Mads Forchhammer and the logistics department at the University Centre in Svalbard for supporting the field campaigns. We also thank DVM Amanda Høyer Boesen for assistance with surgeries in 2018. Åshild Ø. Pedersen and Stein Tore Pedersen contributed to successful field campaigns. We are grateful for the technical support received from Ásgeir Bjarnason at StarOddi Ltd during logger programming and validations of recordings. Finally, we thank Lucy Hawkes, Andreas Fahlman and Katsufumi Sato for inviting us to contribute to the theme issue ‘Measuring physiology in free-living animals’. Peer reviewed