Hot, Dry, and Salty: The Present and Future of an Extremophile Model Lizard from Argentina.

RA Lara-Reséndiz, JM Sánchez, RS Paez… - Journal of Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Global warming poses a threat to lizard populations by raising ambient temperatures above
historical norms and reducing thermoregulation opportunities. Whereas the reptile fauna of …

A quantitative synthesis of and predictive framework for studying winter warming effects in reptiles

JB Moss, KJ MacLeod - Oecologia, 2022 - Springer
Increases in temperature related to global warming have important implications for
organismal fitness. For ectotherms inhabiting temperate regions,'winter warming'is likely to …

Comparative thermal sensitivity of locomotor performance and vulnerability to global warming of two sympatric Phymaturus lizards from cold environments of …

F Cabezas-Cartes, EL Kubisch, F Duran… - Biological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Sister species that live in sympatry provide the possibility to analyse the level of divergence
in their ecological, physiological and life-history traits and how they can coexist without out …

Looking at the past to infer into the future: Thermal traits track environmental change in Liolaemidae

NR Ibargüengoytía, M Medina, A Laspiur, YF Qu… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The diversity of habitats generated by the Andes uplift resulted a mosaic of heterogeneous
environments in South America for species to evolve a variety of ecological and …

Thermophysiological plasticity could buffer the effects of global warming on a Patagonian lizard

EL Kubisch, JB Fernández… - … Zoology Part A …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecophysiological plasticity determines, to a great extent, the geographic distribution and the
vulnerability of ectotherms to climate change. We studied the relationship between …

Vulnerability to climate change of a microendemic lizard species from the central Andes

A Laspiur, JC Santos, SM Medina, JE Pizarro… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Given the rapid loss of biodiversity as consequence of climate change, greater knowledge of
ecophysiological and natural history traits are crucial to determine which environmental …

Thermal biology and locomotor performance in Phymaturus calcogaster: are Patagonian lizards vulnerable to climate change?

RL Obregon, JA Scolaro, NR IbargÜengoytÍa… - Integrative …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Behavioral and physiological traits of ectotherms are especially sensitive to fluctuations of
environmental temperature. In particular, niche‐specialist lizards are dependent on their …

Temperature and barometric pressure affect the activity intensity and movement of an endangered thermoconforming lizard

D Ariano‐Sánchez, RM Mortensen, RP Wilson… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming is expected to affect movement‐related thermoregulation in ectotherms, but
the likely effects on thermoconforming lizards, which spend little energy in thermoregulation …

Latitudinal pattern of the thermal sensitivity of running speed in the endemic lizard Liolaemus multimaculatus

OA Stellatelli, LE Vega, C Block, C Rocca… - Integrative …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Physiological performance in lizards may be affected by climate across latitudinal or
altitudinal gradients. In the coastal dune barriers in central‐eastern Argentina, the annual …

Nowhere to go: Potential distribution shifts of a widespread lizard under two climate change scenarios

JI Chiu-Valderrama, BE Siurob-Espíndola… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Species range shifts under climate change scenarios are caused by many factors. An
integrative approach combining demographic distribution models (DDMs) and correlative …