Thermal tolerance and the importance of microhabitats for Andean frogs in the context of land use and climate change

P González‐del‐Pliego, BR Scheffers… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming is having impacts across the Tree of Life. Understanding species'
physiological sensitivity to temperature change and how they relate to local temperature …

Elevational and microclimatic drivers of thermal tolerance in Andean Pristimantis frogs

P Pintanel, M Tejedo, SR Ron… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We analysed elevational and microclimatic drivers of thermal tolerance diversity in a
tropical mountain frog clade to test three macrophysiological predictions: less spatial …

Tropical amphibians in shifting thermal landscapes under land‐use and climate change

AJ Nowakowski, JI Watling, SM Whitfield… - Conservation …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐cover and climate change are both expected to alter species distributions and
contribute to future biodiversity loss. However, the combined effects of land‐cover and …

Thermal buffering of microhabitats is a critical factor mediating warming vulnerability of frogs in the Philippine biodiversity hotspot

BR Scheffers, RM Brunner, SD Ramirez, LP Shoo… - Biotropica, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Species may circumvent the impacts of climate warming if the habitats they use reduce
ambient temperature. In this study, we identified which frog species from a tropical montane …

Thermal physiological traits in tropical lowland amphibians: Vulnerability to climate warming and cooling

R von May, A Catenazzi, R Santa-Cruz, AS Gutierrez… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Climate change is affecting biodiversity and ecosystem function worldwide, and the lowland
tropics are of special concern because organisms living in this region experience …

Synergistic effects of warming and disease linked to high mortality in cool-adapted terrestrial frogs

WJ Neely, SE Greenspan, LP Ribeiro, T Carvalho… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cool-adapted species inhabiting montane tropical forests are vulnerable to heat stress
associated with climate warming. According to the thermal mismatch hypothesis, pathogens …

Thermal physiology and species distribution models reveal climate vulnerability of temperate amphibians

AA Gerick, RG Munshaw, WJ Palen… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim High‐latitude ectotherms are predicted to be less physiologically vulnerable to climate
warming than tropical species based on their larger thermal safety margins, the distance …

Thermal niche predicts tolerance to habitat conversion in tropical amphibians and reptiles

LO Frishkoff, EA Hadly, GC Daily - Global change biology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat conversion is a major driver of the biodiversity crisis, yet why some species undergo
local extinction while others thrive under novel conditions remains unclear. We suggest that …

Response to thermal and hydric regimes point to differential inter-and intraspecific vulnerability of tropical amphibians to climate warming

P Delgado-Suazo, PA Burrowes - Journal of Thermal Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In Puerto Rico, an island threatened by climate warming, only one of two species of
frogs that share part of their distribution has undergone a recent range contraction to higher …

Low desiccation and thermal tolerance constrains a terrestrial amphibian to a rare and disappearing microclimate niche

EP Hoffmann, KL Cavanough… - Conservation …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Drier and hotter conditions caused by climate change threaten species that exist close to
their physiological limits, as well as those with limited ability to move. Habitat specialists may …