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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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Climate Change, Extreme Temperatures and Sex-Related Responses in Spiders
Biology, 2023 Climatic extremes, such as heat waves, are increasing in frequency, intensity and duration under anthropogenic climate change. These extreme events pose a great threat to many organisms, and especially ectotherms, which are susceptible to high ...
Jeffrey A. Harvey, Yuting Dong
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Behavioral fever in ectothermic vertebrates [PDF]
Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 2017 Fever is an evolutionary conserved defense mechanism which is present in both endothermic and ectothermic vertebrates. Ectotherms in response to infection can increase their body temperature by moving to warmer places. This process is known as behavioral fever.
Krzysztof Rakus +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Most studies on how rising temperatures will impact terrestrial ectotherms have focused on single populations or multiple sympatric species. Addressing the thermal and energetic implications of climatic variation on multiple allopatric populations of a ...
Hayley L. Crowell +10 more
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Thermal melanism in ectotherms [PDF]
Journal of Thermal Biology, 2007 Abstract Whether melanism plays a significant role in thermoregulation has been a persistent question in studies of thermal biology of ectotherms. This review provides a synthesis of the thermal melanism hypothesis which states that dark individuals (i.e.
James R. Spotila +3 more
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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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Non-Mammalian Vertebrates: Distinct Models to Assess the Role of Ion Gradients in Energy Expenditure
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2017 Animals store metabolic energy as electrochemical gradients. At least 50% of mammalian energy is expended to maintain electrochemical gradients across the inner mitochondrial membrane (H+), the sarcoplasmic reticulum (Ca++), and the plasma membrane (Na ...
Caroline E. Geisler +2 more
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Environmental Research: Ecology, 2023 Species–environmental relationships, including drivers of body temperature ( T _B ), are important for understanding thermal ecology and physiological needs of species during climate change.
Brian R Blais +4 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2019 Variation in thermal tolerance plays a key role in determining the biogeographic distribution of organisms. Consequently, identifying the mechanistic basis for thermal tolerance is necessary for understanding not only current species range limits but ...
Alice E. Harada +2 more
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