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Latitudinal directionality in ectotherm invasion success [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020 A striking pattern, seen in both fossil and extant taxa, is that tropical ectotherms are better at invading temperate habitats than vice versa. This is puzzling because tropical ectotherms, being thermal specialists, face a harsher abiotic environmentandcompetition from temperate residents that are thermal generalists.
Priyanga Amarasekare, Margaret W. Simon
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Diet effects on ectotherm thermal performance
Biological ReviewsABSTRACTThe environment is changing rapidly, and considerable research is aimed at understanding the capacity of organisms to respond. Changes in environmental temperature are particularly concerning as most animals are ectothermic, with temperature considered a key factor governing their ecology, biogeography, behaviour and physiology.
Emily A. Hardison, Erika J. Eliason
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Ectothermic organisms respond to rapid environmental change through a combination of behavioral and physiological adjustments. As behavioral and physiological traits are often functionally linked, an effective ectotherm response to environmental ...
Senka Baškiera +2 more
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Ectotherm heat tolerance and the microbiome: current understanding, future directions and potential applications [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2023 Climate change and increasing global temperatures are a leading threat to ectothermic animals worldwide. Ectotherm persistence under climate change will depend on a combination of host and environmental factors; recently it has become clear that host ...
Samantha S. Fontaine, Kevin D. Kohl
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Temperature variation makes an ectotherm more sensitive to global warming unless thermal evolution occurs [PDF]
Journal of Animal Ecology, 2019 To assess long-term impacts of global warming on species, there is growing interest in latitudinal intraspecific patterns in thermal adaptation. Yet, while both mean temperatures and daily temperature fluctuations (DTFs) are expected to increase under ...
Julie Verheyen, Robby Stoks
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Ectotherm mitochondrial economy and responses to global warming
Acta Physiologica, 2023 Temperature is a key abiotic factor affecting ecology, biogeography, and evolution of species. Alterations of energy metabolism play an important role in adaptations and plastic responses to temperature shifts on different time scales.
I. Sokolova
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Global warming is predicted to increase prolonged thermal challenges for aquatic ectotherms, i.e. it causes metabolic performance declines, impacts food intake, and finally causes impaired growth. In this research work, we investigated whether a tropical
Andrea Aguilar +8 more
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Temperature, Demography, and Ectotherm Fitness [PDF]
The American Naturalist, 2001 Temperature has profound effects on ectotherms such as plants, invertebrates, and lower vertebrates (Hochachka and Somero 1984; Cossins and Bowler 1987). The impact of temperature is often depicted graphically as a “thermal performance curve,” which plots performance as a function of body temperature (Huey and Stevenson 1979).
Huey, Raymond B., Berrigan, David
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Large‐scale patterns of green turtle trophic ecology in the eastern Pacific Ocean
Ecosphere, 2021 Trophic position and niche width are fundamental components of a species’ ecology, reflecting resource use, and influencing key demographic parameters such as somatic growth, maturation, and survival.
Jeffrey A. Seminoff +20 more
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Thermogenesis in ectothermic vertebrates [PDF]
Temperature, 2015 Thermogenesis refers to the production of heat by living organisms as a by-product of metabolic activity and is the principal thermoregulatory effector employed by endothermic organisms.
Andrade, Denis Vieira +2 more
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