The impacts of heat stress on animal cognition: implications for adaptation to a changing climate

C Soravia, BJ Ashton, A Thornton… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With global surface air temperature rising rapidly, extensive research effort has been
dedicated to assessing the consequences of this change for wildlife. While impacts on the …

ReptiLearn: An automated home cage system for behavioral experiments in reptiles without human intervention

T Eisenberg, M Shein-Idelson - Plos Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Understanding behavior and its evolutionary underpinnings is crucial for unraveling the
complexities of brain function. Traditional approaches strive to reduce behavioral complexity …

Is it all about size? Dismantling the integrated phenotype to understand species coexistence and niche segregation

C Reyes‐Puig, U Enriquez‐Urzelai… - Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Niche segregation is a mechanism by which competition between coexisting species is
reduced. The ecological niche is a multidimensional space shaped by the conditions and …

Assessing thermal ecology of herpetofauna across a heterogeneous microhabitat mosaic in a changing aridland riparian system

BR Blais, DE Velasco, ME Frackiewicz… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Species–environmental relationships, including drivers of body temperature (TB), are
important for understanding thermal ecology and physiological needs of species during …

[PDF][PDF] Inference of lizard preferred temperatures differs substantially among experimental methods

G Koziel, A S'khifa, S Kirchhof, A MacLeod, U Joger… - Salamandra, 2021 - lacerta.de
Experimentally assessing the preferred body temperature (Tpref) of ectothermic animals is
important to understand thermal adaptation. In lizards, this variable is usually estimated by …

[PDF][PDF] Advances in thermal imaging

DJ McCafferty, R Koprowski, K Herborn… - Journal of Thermal …, 2021 - eprints.gla.ac.uk
Thermal imaging, or more correctly infrared thermography, has been widely applied to
studies of animal and human biology (see Burnay, Williams, and Jones 1988; McCafferty …

[PDF][PDF] Comparative Microhabitat Use of Two California Native Ranids, California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) and foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii), in a …

AL Erway - 2022 - scholarworks.calstate.edu
Amphibians are the most threatened group of vertebrates in the world, due to human-caused
impacts of climate change and habitat alteration on amphibian accessibility to moisture and …

ReptiLearn: A Smart Home Cage for Behavioral Experiments in Reptiles

T Eisenberg, M Shein-Idelson - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Understanding behavior and its evolutionary underpinnings is crucial for unraveling the
complexities of brain function. Traditional approaches strive to reduce behavioral complexity …