Summary
High-elevation environments are defined by thin air and biting cold that demand exceptional physiological resilience. Understanding how organisms acclimatize and adapt to these challenges is key to uncovering how they will respond to future environmental conditions. This study will examine how different populations of two species of mountain hummingbirds vary in their genetic, behavioral, and physiological responses to temperature and oxygen scarcity. The researchers will use integrative approaches in the field and the lab to study populations distributed across a range of latitudes and elevat
