Fog and fauna of the Namib Desert: past and future

D Mitchell, JR Henschel, RS Hetem… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The future of fog‐dependent habitats under climate change is unknown but likely precarious;
many have experienced recent declines in fog. Fog‐dependent deserts particularly will be …

No evidence for the 'rate‐of‐living'theory across the tetrapod tree of life

G Stark, D Pincheira‐Donoso… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The 'rate‐of‐living'theory predicts that life expectancy is a negative function of the rates
at which organisms metabolize. According to this theory, factors that accelerate metabolic …

Thermoregulatory behavior and high thermal preference buffer impact of climate change in a Namib Desert lizard

S Kirchhof, RS Hetem, HM Lease, DB Miles… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of the thermal ecology of a species can improve model predictions for
temperature‐induced population collapse, which in light of climate change is increasingly …

Stable isotope analysis of diet confirms niche separation of two sympatric species of Namib Desert lizard

IW Murray, HM Lease, RS Hetem, D Mitchell… - Integrative …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We used stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen to study the trophic niche of two species of
insectivorous lizards, the Husab sand lizard Pedioplanis husabensis and Bradfield's Namib …

A protocol for distilling animal body water from biological samples and measuring oxygen and hydrogen stable isotopes via cavity ring-down spectroscopy

ZT Steele, K Caceres, AD Jameson… - … in Environmental and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The application of stable isotope analysis (SIA) to the fields of ecology and animal biology
has rapidly expanded over the past three decades, particularly with regards to water …

Ecological niche separation of two sympatric insectivorous lizard species in the Namib Desert

IW Murray, A Fuller, HM Lease, D Mitchell… - Journal of Arid …, 2016 - Elsevier
Individual lizard species may reduce competition within a habitat by diverging along one or
more niche dimensions, such as spatial, temporal or dietary dimensions. We compared the …