The relationship between the body and air temperature in a terrestrial ectotherm [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionEctotherms make up the majority of terrestrial biodiversity, so it is important to understand their potential responses to climate change. Often, models aiming to achieve this understanding correlate species distributions with ambient air temperature ...
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The past, present, and future of predator–prey interactions in a warming world: Using species distribution modeling to forecast ectotherm–endotherm niche overlap [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionClimate change has the potential to disrupt species interactions across global ecosystems. Ectotherm–endotherm interactions may be especially prone to this risk due to the possible mismatch between the species in physiological response and performance ...
Jessica L. Hill +5 more
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Energetic costs increase with faster heating in an aquatic ectotherm. [PDF]
Conserv Physiol, 2023 We show that rate of temperature change has a systematic effect on the oxygen consumption of ectotherms and that as temperature increases more rapidly, the rate of oxygen consumption increases.
Harding L, Jackson AL, Payne N.
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Temperature and the progression of developmental milestones in embryogenesis of a marine ectotherm [PDF]
Open BiologyEmbryos are among the most temperature-sensitive life stages. To survive and produce juvenile stages, embryos must be robust to changes in temperature that also change development time profoundly. Yet, how robustness is achieved during embryogenesis, and
Emily K. Belcher +3 more
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In the heat of the moment: Including realistic thermal fluctuations results in dramatically altered key population parameters [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionTemperature is commonly acknowledged as one of the primary forces driving ectotherm vector populations, most notably by influencing metabolic rates and survival.
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Oxygen availability and body mass modulate ectotherm responses to ocean warming
Nature Communications, 2023 In an ocean that is rapidly warming and losing oxygen, accurate forecasting of species’ responses must consider how this environmental change affects fundamental aspects of their physiology.
Murray I. Duncan +6 more
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Climatic and geographic predictors of life history variation in Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus): A range-wide synthesis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Elucidating how life history traits vary geographically is important to understanding variation in population dynamics. Because many aspects of ectotherm life history are climate-dependent, geographic variation in climate is expected to have a large ...
Eric T Hileman +44 more
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Size Matters: Individual Variation in Ectotherm Growth and Asymptotic Size. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Body size, and, by extension, growth has impacts on physiology, survival, attainment of sexual maturity, fecundity, generation time, and population dynamics, especially in ectotherm animals that often exhibit extensive growth following attainment of ...
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Accurately predicting the effects of future warming on aquatic ectotherms requires an understanding how thermal history, including average temperature and variation, affects populations of the same species.
Emily E. King +2 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 Cell size may be important in understanding the thermal biology of ectotherms, as the regulation and consequences of cell size appear to be temperature dependent.
Iris Louise Eleonora van de Pol +2 more
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