...) mechanisms. Thermal regulation Ring-necked snake Thermal biology Thermal ecology Regional heterothermy, which is when body regions differ in temperature, can have important ramifications for performance because most biological processes that affect organismal function are temperature...

... the terrestrial ecosystem and laboratory thermal environment. Thermal ecology Heat budget modelling Heat transfer Dynamic energy budget National Science Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001 NSF-IOS 1457237 One of the key challenges of thermal ecology is understanding how...

... environments. Temperature effects Muscle physiology Flight Phyllostomidae Thermal ecology Regional heterothermy Temperature has major effects on muscle performance ( Bennett, 1984 ; James, 2013 ). These effects are clearly ecologically important in ectotherms that experience substantial...

... Environmental sex determination Maternal effects Reproductive investment Sex allocation Thermal ecology Thermoregulation The parental environment is a key driver of offspring phenotypic variation ( Mousseau and Dingle, 1991 ; Bernardo, 1996 ; Bonduriansky and Day, 2009 ). These non-genetic...

... the freshwater environment that would be predicted to influence the thermal response of AS. For both life stages, we then set our analyses of AS and watershed temperatures within the context of existing knowledge on the thermal ecology of this species, enabling us to assess the potential role of AS in defining...

... thermal ecology thermal heterogeneity The pervasive effects of an organism's body temperature have long attracted the attention of biologists. Temperature is among the most important abiotic factors driving the physiology and ecology of organisms ( Hochachka and Somero, 2002 ), and a large amount...