.... Summary: In Diplolaemus leopardinus a reduced evaporative water loss may mitigate the impact of rising temperatures on water balance, but a detrimental effect on net energy gain could increase its vulnerability. Metabolism Phenotypic plasticity Reptiles Thermal preference Water loss...

...Ian A. Bouyoucos; Phillip R. Morrison; Ornella C. Weideli; Eva Jacquesson; Serge Planes; Colin A. Simpfendorfer; Colin J. Brauner; Jodie L. Rummer ABSTRACT Thermal dependence of growth and metabolism can influence thermal preference and tolerance in marine ectotherms, including threatened and data...

... preference for warmer areas. Thermal preference Fish welfare Emotional fever Fish stress Behavioural thermoregulation Ectotherm thermoregulation An important component of animal research explores how animals react to, or cope, with stress. Although stress is often not always easily defined...

... Climate change Stable isotopes Thermal preference Heat increment of feeding Specific dynamic action Tsetse Diptera Animals eat to obtain the energy essential for the basic functions of life – growth, survival and reproduction – but processing food has an inherent energetic cost. The increase...

... availability was mediating this relationship, we limited fatty acid availability with mercaptoacetate (MA) and quantified its effect on torpid metabolic rate( TMR ) and thermal preference of big brown bats ( Eptesicus fuscus ). Administration of MA caused a 43% drop in TMR at 10°C and caused bats to choose...

..., that observed distribution might misrepresent true thermal preferences. Tiny ectotherms have limited thermal inertia, and so their body temperature and speed of movement will vary with their position along the gradient. In order to separate the direct effects of body temperature on movement from actual...