Body temperature (T b) profoundly affects the fitness of ectotherms. Many ectotherms use
behavior to control T b within narrow levels. These temperatures are assumed to be optimal …

A growing body of research demonstrates the impacts of invasive alien plants on native
animals, but few studies consider thermal effects as a driver of the responses of native …

Animal sociality plays a crucial organisational role in evolution. As a result, understanding
the factors that promote the emergence, maintenance, and diversification of animal societies …

Physiological processes are optimized within a narrow range of body temperatures. Reptiles
engage in behavioral thermoregulation to achieve the optimal body temperature range …

The classic cost-benefit model of ectothermic thermoregulation compares energetic costs
and benefits, providing a critical framework for understanding this process (Huey and …

Temperature is highly variable across space and time at multiple scales, shapes landscape
pattern, and dictates ecological processes. While our knowledge of ecological phenomena …

Ectotherms can attain preferred body temperatures by selecting specific temperature
microhabitats within a varied thermal environment. The side‐blotched lizard, Uta …

How ectotherms exploit thermal resources has important implications for their habitat
utilization and thermal vulnerability to climate warming. To address this issue, we …

Natural populations respond to selection pressures like increasing local temperatures in
many ways, including plasticity and adaptation. To predict the response of ectotherms like …

Although the importance of thermoregulation and plasticity as compensatory mechanisms
for climate change has long been recognized, they have largely been studied …