... of Biologists Ltd 2024 Summary: This Commentary provides a guide to understand if, when and how UVR can be integrated into experimental designs to improve ecological realism. Multiple stressors Ecophysiology UV lighting Experimental design Australian Research Council http://dx.doi.org...

... http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100006363 Villum Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100008398 Natur og Univers, Det Frie Forskningsråd http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100008394 Active space Behavioral ecology Bioacoustics Ecophysiology Sperm whales Highlighted...

... Acad. Sci. USA 119 , e2201089119 . 10.1073/pnas.2201089119 Lehmann , P. , Kaunisto , S. , Koštál , V. , Margus , A. , Zahradníčková , H. and Lindström , L. ( 2015 ). Comparative ecophysiology of cold-tolerance-related traits: assessing range expansion potential...

.../10.13039/100000006 N00014-18-1-2822 Aerobic dive limit Body size Diving physiology Ecophysiology...

..., and the first detection of a known thermoregulatory behavior in a new taxonomic group. Our results attest to the value of applying such approaches in the young, but quickly developing field of research that investigates seasonal changes in avian heat acclimatization, and more broadly in the ecophysiology...

... traits in a wide range of species, life history stages and experimental designs. Heat rate variability Ecophysiology Cardiac activity Software Image-analysis UK Research and Innovation MR/T01962X/1 University of Plymouth Heart rate (HR) and heart rate...

... studying the physiological and behavioural performance of wild animal populations. Black spot disease Ecophysiology Fast-start escape response Infection intensity Respirometry Whole-organism performance Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada http://dx.doi.org...

... of length of acclimation time and trial length on thermal preference of juvenile lake whitefish. Behavioral thermoregulation Conservation physiology Ecophysiology Behavioral choice assay Aquatic organisms living in heterothermal environments can regulate internal body temperature...

... Negaprion brevirostris Oxygen consumption rate Biologging Ecophysiology Elasmobranch Respirometry Summary: The relationship between oxygen consumption rate and dynamic body acceleration is allometrically dependent, and models incorporating different slope and intercept scaling rates estimate...

... properties Phase behaviour Ecophysiology Understanding the evolution of multifunctional traits is one of the major challenges in evolutionary biology. Traits – be they morphological, behavioural or physiological – are shaped by selection pressures arising from their function. Trait differences...

... hypotheses may rapidly uncover the mechanisms setting organismal thermal limits. Comparative physiology Critical thermal limits Ecophysiology Ectotherm performance At the edges of the range of temperatures that animals can tolerate lie their critical thermal limits – the temperatures...

... of physiological traits, in particular traits that might have significant fitness effects in the immediate post-fledging period, e.g. oxygen carrying capacity ( Gebhardt-Henrich and Richner, 1998 ; Bowers et al., 2014 ; Cornell et al., 2016a , b ). Development Chick Ecophysiology Food supplementation...

... of mysid crustaceans. Compound eye Visual adaptation Ecophysiology Rhodopsin Metarhodopsin Rhabdom Photoreceptors are susceptible to damage from the very functions they are designed to perform most efficiently: photon capture and signal amplification. Light absorption...

... and ecophysiological investigations can reveal the potential impacts of the microbiota on physiological responses to changing environments, and is likely to bring valuable insights to the study of host–microbiome interactions among a broad range of metazoans, including humans. * Authors for correspondence...

... 2016 Summary: Variation in performance among individual fish is associated with differences in their mitochondrial leak respiration rate and respiratory control ratio. Ecophysiology Food intake Global warming Proton leak Respiratory control ratio Respiration rate Increasing...

... of cardio-respiratory development in the marine gastropod Littorina obtusata is crucial for determining whether embryos survive hypoxia; individuals that develop their adult cardiovascular system early survive low oxygen conditions. Heterokairy Ecophysiology Non-adaptive plasticity...

... 2014 3 9 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Age-related variation Mosquito Cross-tolerance Population dynamics Ecophysiology Water loss Persistence of any natural biological population not being continually rescued by immigration is dependent...

... and maintenance of dominance (e.g. fights, injuries, time devoted to fight instead of feeding or medicating). Dominance Ecophysiology Health Mandrill Oxidative balance Social rank ...

... the occurrence of oversized otoliths (109.3% increase). Smaller larvae with greater skeletal deformities and larger otoliths may face major ecophysiological challenges, which might potentiate substantial declines in adult fish populations, putting in jeopardy the species' fitness under a changing ocean...

.... Competing interests The authors declare no competing financial interests. 3 10 2013 11 11 2013 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Foraging Trade-offs Ecophysiology Teleost fish Food deprivation Locomotion Compensatory growth Extended periods...