The thermal ecology and physiology of reptiles and amphibians: A user's guide

EN Taylor, LM Diele‐Viegas… - … Zoology Part A …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Research on the thermal ecology and physiology of free‐living organisms is accelerating as
scientists and managers recognize the urgency of the global biodiversity crisis brought on by …

Climate change, thermal niches, extinction risk and maternal‐effect rescue of toad‐headed lizards, Phrynocephalus, in thermal extremes of the Arabian Peninsula to …

B Sinervo, DB Miles, Y Wu… - Integrative …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Determining the susceptibility of species to changing thermal niches is a major goal for
biologists. In this paper we develop an eco‐physiological model of extinction risk under …

Response of Iranian lizards to future climate change by poleward expansion, southern contraction, and elevation shifts

S Vaissi - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
This study explores the relationships between recent Iranian lizard species distributions and
the observed climate, as well as potential future distributions of species. For this purpose, an …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change in the Andes and its impact on agriculture: a systematic review.

A Lozano-Povis, CE Alvarez-Montalván… - Scientia …, 2021 - researchgate.net
In recent years, agriculture in the Andes has shown greater sensitivity to climate change,
favoring processes of soil erosion, retreat of glaciers, loss of vegetation cover, increased …

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 …

Comparative thermal sensitivity of locomotor performance and vulnerability to global warming of two sympatric Phymaturus lizards from cold environments of …

F Cabezas-Cartes, EL Kubisch, F Duran… - Biological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Sister species that live in sympatry provide the possibility to analyse the level of divergence
in their ecological, physiological and life-history traits and how they can coexist without out …

Are lizards sensitive to anomalous seasonal temperatures? Long-term thermobiological variability in a subtropical species

A Vicente Liz, V Santos, T Ribeiro, M Guimarães… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Alterations in thermal niches have been widely associated with the Anthropocene erosion of
reptiles' diversity. They entail potential physiological constraints for organisms' performance …

Effects of climate and latitude on age at maturity and longevity of lizards studied by skeletochronology

F Cabezas-Cartes, JM Boretto… - Integrative and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Longevity and age at maturity are key life-history traits, directly linked to fitness attributes
such as survival and reproductive output. It has been proposed that these traits are strongly …

Looking at the past to infer into the future: Thermal traits track environmental change in Liolaemidae

NR Ibargüengoytía, M Medina, A Laspiur, YF Qu… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The diversity of habitats generated by the Andes uplift resulted a mosaic of heterogeneous
environments in South America for species to evolve a variety of ecological and …

Potential benefits from global warming to the thermal biology and locomotor performance of an endangered Patagonian lizard

F Cabezas-Cartes, JB Fernández, F Duran, EL Kubisch - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Global warming can significantly affect many aspects of the biology of animal species,
including their thermal physiology and physiological performance. Thermal performance …