Mechanical injury is a prevalent challenge in the lives of animals with myriad potential
consequences for organisms, including reduced fitness and death. Research on animal …

Phenotypic trade-offs are inevitable in nature, but the mechanisms driving them are poorly
understood. Movement and oxygen are essential to all animals, and as such, the common …

In nature, many organisms experience a daily range of body temperatures. Thermal
performance at stable temperatures is often extrapolated to predict function in cyclical …

Reptiles, like other vertebrates, rely on immunity to defend themselves from infection. The
energetic cost of an immune response is liable to scale with infection severity, prompting …

Urbanization can cause innumerable abiotic and biotic changes that have the potential to
influence the ecology, behavior, and physiology of native resident organisms. Relative to …

Climate change increasingly influences the loss of biodiversity, especially in ectothermic
organisms, which depend on environmental temperatures to obtain heat and regulate their …

Immune responses can increase survival, but they can also incur a variety of costs that may
lead to phenotypic trade‐offs. The nature of trade‐offs between immune activity and other …

Wildlife populations across the globe are poised to lose their natural habitat to urbanization,
yet there is limited information on how different species handle living in cities. Animals in …

Aposematismus je výrazný nebo výstražný signál, který poskytuje živočichu ochranu proti
možnému predátorovi. Aposematické zbarvení je pro predátora jednodušeji …

The threat that mechanical injury poses to homeostasis and survival has spurred the
evolution of diverse processes to mitigate these effects. The most dramatic of these is …