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Diversity, 2019 The use of natural variation in stable isotope ratios continues to be used in ecological studies without proper validation through laboratory studies. This study tested the effects of temperature, time, and turnover in the scales of juvenile corn snakes (
Samuel J. Hirt, Kent A. Hatch
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Bioenergetics of the western spruce budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) with comments on endotherm and ectotherm population energetics [PDF]
, 1985 Energetic components (respiration, consumption, frass production, and growth) for larvae of the western spruce budworm (WSB), Choristoneura occidentalis, were modeled using multiple regression techniques for a range of temperatures (10-31°C) and body ...
Reichenbach, Norman, Stairs, Gorden R.
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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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MAPPING THERMAL HABITAT OF ECTOTHERMS BASED ON BEHAVIORAL THERMOREGULATION IN A CONTROLLED THERMAL ENVIRONMENT [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012 Thermal environment is especially important to ectotherm because a lot of physiological functions rely on the body temperature such as thermoregulation.
T. Fei, A. Skidmore, Y. Liu
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Geometric factors influencing the diet of vertebrate predators in marine and terrestrial environments [PDF]
, 2014 Predator–prey relationships are vital to ecosystem function and there is a need for greater predictive understanding of these interactions. We develop a geometric foraging model predicting minimum prey size scaling in marine and terrestrial vertebrate ...
Bielby, Jon +5 more
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Royal Society Open ScienceFrequent and extreme temperatures associated with climate change pose a major threat to biodiversity, particularly for organisms whose metabolism is strictly linked to ambient temperatures. Many studies have explored thermal effects on survival, but heat-
Abhishek Meena +6 more
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Loss of largest and oldest individuals of the Montpellier snake correlates with recent warming in the southeastern Iberian Peninsula [PDF]
, 2016 The effects of climate change on organisms are now being extensively studied in many different taxa. However, the variation in body size, usually shrinkage in response to increasing temperature, has received little attention regarding to reptiles. During
Alaminos, Esmeralda +3 more
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Ecological Monographs, 2018 Mechanistic forecasts of how species will respond to climate change are highly desired but difficult to achieve. Because processes at different scales are explicit in such models, careful assessments of their predictive abilities can provide valuable ...
Michael R. Kearney +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 In ectotherms, adult body size commonly declines with increasing environmental temperature, a pattern known as the temperature-size rule. One influential hypothesis explaining this observation is that the challenge of obtaining sufficient oxygen to ...
Sigurd Einum +2 more
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Limpet feeding rate and the consistency of physiological response to temperature [PDF]
, 2014 Thermal reaction norms are fundamental relationships for geographic comparisons of organism response to temperature. They are shaped by an organism’s environmental history and provide insights into both the global patterns of thermal sensitivity and the ...
Clarke, Andrew +5 more
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