For many organisms, constraints on activity increase energetic costs, which ultimately
reduce the suitability of a particular habitat. Mechanistic species distribution models often …

Studies of plethodontid physiology were quite common in the 1960s, 1970s, and into the
early part of the 1980s. Since this time, studies of other aspects of plethodontid biology …

Agonistic behavior, a critical component of territoriality, is widespread throughout terrestrial
plethodontid salamanders, though geographic variation in this behavior is poorly …

The use of behavior to buffer extreme environmental variation is expected to enable species
to (a) extend the breadth of environments they inhabit beyond that predicted from climatic …

Sexual selection is considered the primary driver of morph turnover in many color
polymorphic taxa, yet the potential for other factors (like climate) to contribute to …

Intraspecific variation in the ability of individuals to tolerate environmental perturbations is
often neglected when considering the impacts of climate change. Yet this information is …

Temperature and humidity are critical factors for terrestrial lungless salamanders, as their
body temperatures are largely determined by the environmental temperature and require …

For organisms with complex life cycles, conditions experienced during early life stages may
constrain later growth and survival. Conversely, compensatory mechanisms may attenuate …

Population persistence is informed by the ability of individuals to cope with local abiotic
conditions, which is commonly mediated by physiological traits. Among biphasic …

Although climate warming poses a grave threat to amphibians, little is known about the
capacity of this group to evolve in response to warming. The capacity of key traits to evolve …