The biogeography of warming tolerance in lizards

RO Anderson, S Meiri, DG Chapple - Journal of Biogeography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Many ectotherms are at risk from climate change as temperatures are increasingly
exceeding their thermal limits. Many evaluations of the vulnerability of ectotherms to climate …

Why tropical forest lizards are vulnerable to climate warming

RB Huey, CA Deutsch… - … of the Royal …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Biological impacts of climate warming are predicted to increase with latitude, paralleling
increases in warming. However, the magnitude of impacts depends not only on the degree …

Thermal sensitivity of cold climate lizards and the importance of distributional ranges

MF Bonino, DLM Azócar, JA Schulte II, CS Abdala… - Zoology, 2015 - Elsevier
One of the fundamental goals in macroecology is to understand the relationship among
species' geographic ranges, ecophysiology, and climate; however, the mechanisms …

Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures

S Meiri, AM Bauer, L Chirio, GR Colli… - Global Ecology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Temperature influences most components of animal ecology and life history–but what
kind of temperature? Physiologists usually examine the influence of body temperatures …

Geographic variation in vulnerability to climate warming in a tropical Caribbean lizard

AR Gunderson, M Leal - Functional Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Rising global temperatures are predicted to impact organisms in diverse ways. For
ectotherms, recent broad‐scale analyses have predicted global patterns of vulnerability to …

Intraspecific variation in lizard heat tolerance alters estimates of climate impact

S Herrando‐Pérez, F Ferri‐Yáñez… - Journal of Animal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Research addressing the effects of global warming on the distribution and persistence of
species generally assumes that population variation in thermal tolerance is spatially …

Extinction risks forced by climatic change and intraspecific variation in the thermal physiology of a tropical lizard

E Pontes-da-Silva, WE Magnusson, B Sinervo… - Journal of thermal …, 2018 - Elsevier
Temperature increases can impact biodiversity and predicting their effects is one of the main
challenges facing global climate-change research. Ectotherms are sensitive to temperature …

Conservatism of lizard thermal tolerances and body temperatures across evolutionary history and geography

JW Grigg, LB Buckley - Biology letters, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Species may exhibit similar thermal tolerances via either common ancestry or environmental
filtering and local adaptation, if the species inhabit similar environments. We ask whether …

The multidimensional (and contrasting) effects of environmental warming on a group of montane tropical lizards

MM Muñoz, KJ Feeley, PH Martin… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mountains are cradles for biodiversity and crucibles for climate‐driven species loss,
particularly for tropical ectotherms. Constriction on activity and amplified heat stress are two …

Temperate and tropical lizards are vulnerable to climate warming due to increased water loss and heat stress

C Mi, L Ma, Y Wang, D Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate warming has imposed profound impacts on species globally. Understanding the
vulnerabilities of species from different latitudinal regions to warming climates is critical for …