Climate change and ageing in ectotherms [PDF]
Global Change Biology, 2020 AbstractHuman activity is changing climatic conditions at an unprecedented rate. The impact of these changes may be especially acute on ectotherms since they have limited capacities to use metabolic heat to maintain their body temperature. An increase in temperature is likely to increase the growth rate of ectothermic animals, and may also induce ...
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Significance of Skewness in Ectotherm Thermoregulation [PDF]
American Zoologist, 1979 synopsis. Body temperature distributions of ectotherms which are free to select any en? vironmental temperature throughout a wide range usually are negatively skewed, that is, a wider range of selected temperature falls below the median than above it.
Calvin B. DeWitt, Robert M. Friedman
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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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Predicting the fundamental thermal niche of ectotherms. [PDF]
EcologyAbstractClimate warming is predicted to increase mean temperatures and thermal extremes on a global scale. Because their body temperature depends on the environmental temperature, ectotherms bear the full brunt of climate warming. Predicting the impact of climate warming on ectotherm diversity and distributions requires a framework that can translate ...
Simon MW, Amarasekare P.
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Acclimation and thermal tolerance in Antarctic marine ectotherms [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2013 Antarctic marine species have evolved in one of the coldest and most temperature-stable marine environments on Earth. They have long been classified as being stenothermal, or having a poor capacity to resist warming. Here we show that their ability to acclimate their physiology to elevated temperatures is poor compared with species from temperate ...
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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 ...
Alexandra S. Gardner +6 more
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Seasonality and growth in tropical freshwater ectotherm vertebrates: Results from 1‐year experimentation in the African gray bichir, giraffe catfish, and the West African mud turtle [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Growth in ectotherm vertebrates is strongly rhythmed by seasonal variation in environmental parameters. To track the seasonal variation in ancient times in a continental and tropical context, we aim to develop a method based on the use of the growth rate
Axelle Gardin +7 more
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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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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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Seasonal variation of behavioural thermoregulation in a fossorial salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceTemperature seasonality plays a pivotal role in shaping the thermal biology of ectotherms. However, we still have a limited understanding of how ectotherms maintain thermal balance in the face of varying temperatures, especially in fossorial species. Due
Danilo Giacometti, Glenn J. Tattersall
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