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Climatic niche at physiological and macroecological scales: the thermal tolerance–geographical range interface and niche dimensionality
(Oxford, 2014-04)
Under the Hutchinsonian concept of the realized niche, biotic interactions and dispersal limitation may prevent species from fully occupying areas that they could tolerate physiologically. This can hamper the translation ...
A worldwide and annotated database of evaporative water loss rates in squamate reptiles
(2021-10-01)
Motivation: The understanding of physiological adaptations, of evolutionary radiations and of ecological responses to global change urges for global, comprehensive databases of the functional traits of extant organisms. ...
Biophysical Modeling of Water Economy Can Explain Geographic Gradient of Body Size in Anurans
(Univ Chicago Press, 2019-01-01)
Geographical gradients of body size express climate-driven constraints on animals, but whether they exist and what causes them in ectotherms remains contentious. For amphibians, the water conservation hypothesis posits ...
Understanding evolutionary variation in basal metabolic rate: An analysis in subterranean rodents
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2017-04)
Understanding how evolutionary variation in energetic metabolism arises is central to several theories in animal biology. Basal metabolic rate (BMR) –i.e., the minimum rate of energy necessary to maintain thermal homeostasis ...
Variação latitudinal nos limites de tolerância e plasticidade térmica em anfíbios em um cenário de mudanças climáticas: efeito dos micro-habitats, sazonalidade e filogenia
(Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrasilBioquímicaUFSMPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade AnimalCentro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, 2018-02-23)
Under the current scenario of climate change, the inclusion of precise knowledge of individually-based thermal exposures estimates with physiological traits, allows to formulate objective metrics to assess present ectotherm ...
Macrophysiological Patterns in the Energetics of Caviomorph Rodents: Implications in a Changing World
(Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos, 2015)
. In this article we review literature-based data on energy metabolism of caviomorph species in a changing world. The pioneer work of Arends and McNab (2001) analyzed the energetics of 30 caviomorph species, specifically ...
La importancia de la fisiología en la distribución geográfica de los insectosThe importance of physiology on insect geographical distribution
(Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 2015-12)
Hallar la explicación de los patrones de distribución de especies a gran escala es un tema muy importante en ecología. Existen muchos trabajos mostrando correlaciones entre factores abióticos, latitud y/o altitud y ...
Thermogenic capacity in subterranean Ctenomys: Species-specific role of thermogenic mechanisms
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2019-02)
One way to understand ecological patterns of species is to determine their physiological diversity on a large geographic and/or temporal scales, in a context of hierarchical biodiversity framework. In particular, ...