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However, the trade-off between behavioral plasticity and physiological adaptations in this species when coping with extreme temperatures across seasons remains poorly understood. Here, we measured activity patterns and serum and brown adipose tissue (BAT) metabolite levels in this rodent during summer and autumn, and analyzed their relationships with microhabitat temperatures. Behaviorally, 87.9% of extra-burrow summer activity occurred between 22:00\u00a0h and 01:00\u00a0h, while autumn activity showed a bimodal distribution: 40.9% concentrated during 18:00\u201320:00\u00a0h and 18.9% during 03:00\u201306:00\u00a0h. This temporal niche shifting effectively minimizes direct heat exposure in summer but provides incomplete protection against autumn cold exposure. Physiologically, serum metabolite concentrations exhibited significant seasonal variation. Specifically, metabolites associated with glycolysis, the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, oxidative phosphorylation and pathways contributing to acetyl-CoA or TCA cycle intermediates production were downregulated in autumn. Conversely, glycolysis, pyruvate oxidation, the TCA cycle and oxidative phosphorylation pathways in BAT were significantly enhanced in autumn. Notably, adenosine 5\u2032-triphosphate (ATP) levels in BAT showed no significant seasonal differences. This physiological linkage suggests chronic cold activation of BAT in autumn. Our results show a trade-off where behavioral thermoregulation sufficiently counteracts summer heat through temporal niche shifting but fails to mitigate chronic cold exposure in autumn, necessitating physiological adaptations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1242\/jeb.250423","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,1]],"date-time":"2025-05-01T10:50:03Z","timestamp":1746096603000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Trade-offs between behavioral plasticity and physiological adaptations in midday gerbils (<i>Meriones meridianus<\/i>) in response to extreme temperatures"],"prefix":"10.1242","volume":"228","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3119-1367","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yang-Yang","family":"Guo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Sciences, Shandong University 1 , Qingdao 266237 ,","place":["China"]},{"name":"College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University 2 , Qufu 273165, Shandong ,","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fangyan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University 2 , Qufu 273165, Shandong ,","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Honglei","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Sciences, Shandong University 1 , Qingdao 266237 ,","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Songzhao","family":"Du","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hongshi Holding Group Co., Ltd 3 , Lanxi 321100, Zhejiang ,","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"De-Hua","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Life Sciences, Shandong University 1 , Qingdao 266237 ,","place":["China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"237","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025060204281024200_JEB250423C1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"587","DOI":"10.1038\/s41558-022-01381-x","article-title":"Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches","volume":"12","author":"Ant\u00e3o","year":"2022","journal-title":"Nat. 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