Designing a seasonal acclimation study presents challenges and opportunities

RB Huey, LB Buckley - Integrative Organismal Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Organisms living in seasonal environments often adjust physiological capacities and
sensitivities in response to (or in anticipation of) environment shifts. Such physiological and …

Ecological responses of squamate reptiles to nocturnal warming

A Rutschmann, C Perry, JF Le Galliard… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nocturnal temperatures are increasing at a pace exceeding diurnal temperatures in most
parts of the world. The role of warmer nocturnal temperatures in animal ecology has …

Lizards from warm and declining populations are born with extremely short telomeres

A Dupoué, P Blaimont, F Angelier… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Aging is the price to pay for acquiring and processing energy through cellular activity and life
history productivity. Climate warming can exacerbate the inherent pace of aging, as …

Activity of a freshwater turtle varies across a latitudinal gradient: Implications for the success of assisted colonisation

S Paget, AC Gleiss, G Kuchling… - Functional Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The value of assisted colonisation as a response to climate change can only be realised if
focal species are well suited to their new habitats. For ectotherms, new habitats must offer …

A hierarchical approach to understanding physiological associations with climate

RO Anderson, CR White, DG Chapple… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Our understanding of species' responses to climate depends on choosing the scale for
the analysis. Processes driving physiological adaptation that occur at the small spatial …

The two environmental drivers of thermoregulatory costs: Interactions between thermal mean and heterogeneity influence thermoregulation

RL Chan, M Hodgson, LE Schwanz - Functional Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ectotherms often thermoregulate behaviourally within variable thermal environments in their
attempts to acquire optimal body temperatures. Thermoregulation accrues benefits but …

The shape of water: physiological adaptations to habitat aridity in the ornate tree lizard (Urosaurus ornatus)

JC Salazar, DB Miles - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Los desiertos siempre han fascinado a los investigadores debido a su alta diversidad de
hábitats, donde las especies de plantas y animales han podido adaptarse y diversificarse …

[HTML][HTML] How do ectotherms perform in cold environments? Physiological and life-history traits in an Andean viviparous lizard

S Clavijo-Baquet, MJ Orellana, P Sabat… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Both the mean and the variation in environmental temperature are increasing globally.
Indeed, the predicted increases in temperature range from 2 to 4° C in the next 50 years …

Genetic and demographic trends from rear to leading edge are explained by climate and forest cover in a cold‐adapted ectotherm

A Dupoué, A Trochet, M Richard… - Diversity and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Determining whether altitudinal shifts in species distributions leave molecular footprints
on wild populations along their range margins from rear to leading edge. Location South …

Heat water and reptiles–do the hydro‐thermal properties of animals at the source location persist at the translocation site?

DM Trewartha, JL Clayton, SS Godfrey… - Animal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Assisted colonization to locations predicted to remain climatically suitable in the future is
increasingly necessary to mitigate climate change effects in ectotherms such as reptiles …