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Transmission of Ranavirus between Ectothermic Vertebrate Hosts
PLoS ONE, 2014 Transmission is an essential process that contributes to the survival of pathogens. Ranaviruses are known to infect different classes of lower vertebrates including amphibians, fishes and reptiles. Differences in the likelihood of infection among ectothermic vertebrate hosts could explain the successful yearlong persistence of ranaviruses in aquatic ...
Roberto Brenes +4 more
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Contrasting effects of temperature across trophic levels in geothermally warmed soil food webs
Oikos, EarlyView.Global warming is altering the structure and dynamics of ecological communities, with significant consequences for soil food webs. Rising temperatures are expected to accelerate metabolic rates in organisms, potentially altering species interactions, and the structure and energetics of food webs.
Estela Folch Chaos +3 more
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The effects of single versus successive warm summers on an intertidal community
Oikos, EarlyView.To accurately predict how organisms and ecological communities will respond to future conditions caused by climate change, we must consider the temporal dynamics of environmental stressors, including the effects of repeated exposures to stress. We performed a two‐year passive thermal manipulation in coastal British Columbia, Canada to determine how ...
Amelia V. Hesketh +3 more
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Localized extinction of an arboreal desert lizard caused by habitat fragmentation [PDF]
, 2013 We adopted a species' perspective for predicting extinction risk in a small, endemic, and strictly scansorial lizard (Urosaurus nigricaudus), in an old (∿60.
Culver, M. +3 more
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Fever in Ectotherms: Evolutionary Implications [PDF]
American Zoologist, 1979 Fever, an elevated thermoregulatory “set-point,” occurs in vertebrates from fishes through mammals in response to infection with appropriate pathogens. The long phylogenetic history of fever supports the hypothesis that fever has an adaptive or beneficial role (i.e., fever is a component of the host's immunological defenses).
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Ecosphere, 2019 Consumer activity—the rate that individuals move through and discover items in their environment—can constrain population interactions and ecosystem services. We introduce a model that assumes consumer activity is co‐limited by the abundance and velocity
M. Kaspari, K. Beurs
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Biological control agents performance is influenced by temperature. Two cold‐tolerant lines of O. loevigatus were developed, improving their fitness at both low and high temperatures, offering advantages far augmentative biological control. Abstract BACKGROUND The performance of biological control agents (BCAs) is strongly influenced by environmental ...
Ana Belén Abelaira +4 more
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Heat Tolerance is Affected by the Gut Microbiota in a Vertebrate Ectotherm [PDF]
, 2023 Jason Dallas +3 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.To cope with highly stochastic and/or heterogeneous environmental conditions, animals must balance energy resource allocation across physiological processes. The digestive tract and brain exhibit structural variations under strong developmental and selective pressures that vary across environmental gradients both between and within species.
Yimei Yan +9 more
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Body size shifts influence effects of increasing temperatures on ectotherm metabolism
bioRxiv, 2017 Aim: It is well-established that warmer temperatures directly cause metabolic rates of ectotherms to increase, but temperature additionally indirectly affects metabolic rates due to impacts on other aspects of ecological systems.
Kristina Riemer +4 more
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