Understanding the motors and brakes that guide physiological evolution is a topic of keen
interest, and is of increasing importance in light of global climate change. For more than half …

Developing rigorous ecological models is a fundamental goal of conservation biologists
seeking to forecast biotic responses to climate change. A limitation of many models is they …

Evolutionary biologists have long been interested in the macroevolutionary consequences
of various selection pressures, yet physiological responses to selection across deep time …

Physiological acclimation has the potential to improve survival during climate change by
reducing sensitivity to warming. However, acclimation can produce trade-offs due to links …

In this report I examine tradeoffs involving body size, age, and resource allocation within the
framework of the Equal Fitness Paradigm (EFP) in six species of plethodontid salamanders …

Humans are changing and challenging nature in many ways. Conservation Biology seeks to
limit human impacts on nature and preserve biological diversity. Traditionally …

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

The equal fitness paradigm (EFP) is a life-history model in which the currency of fitness is
usable energy rather than individuals, and the principal trade-off is between survival …

Behavioral adaptation is one of the first responses put in play by individuals to buffer
environmental variations and to maintain homeostatic equilibrium with their environment …

Predicted changes in global temperature are expected to increase extinction risk for
ectotherms, primarily through increased metabolic rates. Higher metabolic rates generate …