...Danilo Giacometti; Glenn J. Tattersall The ability to control hydration state is essential for terrestrial species, especially amphibians, which are highly susceptible to dehydration. Here, we examined how temperature (17°C vs. 22°C) influenced behavioral hydroregulation in spotted salamanders...

...Ivan Pecl; Pierre U. Blier; France Dufresne ABSTRACT Identification of physiological processes setting thermal tolerance limits is essential to describing adaptive response to temperature changes. We used the North American Daphnia pulex complex, which makes a remarkable model for comparative...

... model for investigating adaptive variation in thermal physiology with varying levels of precipitation and air temperature. This study examined the thermal physiological adaptations of common mole-rats ( Cryptomys hottentotus hottentotus ) across five populations along an aridity gradient, challenging...

...Ondi L. Crino; Kristoffer H. Wild; Christopher R. Friesen; Dalton Leibold; Naomi Laven; Amelia Y. Peardon; Pablo Recio; Karine Salin; Daniel W. A. Noble ABSTRACT Developing animals are increasingly exposed to elevated temperatures as global temperatures rise as a result of climate change...

... Farrell , A. P. ( 2009 ). Environment, antecedents and climate change: lessons from the study of temperature physiology and river migration of salmonids . J. Exp. Biol. 212 , 3771 - 3780 . 10.1242/jeb.023671 Frölicher , T. L . ( 2019 ). Extreme climatic events in the ocean...

...Lindsay E. Martin; Monzerrat Ruiz; Julián F. Hillyer ABSTRACT Mosquitoes cannot use metabolism to regulate their body temperature and therefore climate warming is altering their physiology. Mosquitoes also experience a physiological decline with aging, a phenomenon called senescence. Because both...

... the behaviour of fossorial ectotherms during soil temperature inversion – a phenomenon that marks the transition between winter and spring – based on three non-mutually exclusive hypotheses (thermoregulation, negative geotaxis and migration restlessness). Using a vertical thermal gradient, we evaluated how...

...Anthony J. R. Hickey; Alice R. Harford; Pierre U. Blier; Jules B. Devaux ABSTRACT Although a mechanism accounting for hyperthermic death at critical temperatures remains elusive, the mitochondria of crucial active excitable tissues (i.e. heart and brain) may well be key to this process...

...Jorge Ayala-Berdon; Kevin I. Medina-Bello ABSTRACT Torpor is an adaptive strategy allowing heterothermic animals to cope with energy limitations. In birds and mammals, intrinsic and extrinsic factors, such as body mass and ambient temperature, are the main variables influencing torpor use...

...Matti Vornanen; Ahmed Badr; Jaakko Haverinen ABSTRACT A regular heartbeat is essential for maintaining the homeostasis of the vertebrate body. However, environmental pollutants, oxygen deficiency and extreme temperatures can impair heart function in fish. In this Review, we provide an integrative...

..., thresholds for responses and the interactive effects of other stressors, such as temperature and hypercapnia. Although important progress has been made, our Review identifies knowledge gaps that need to be addressed if we are to fully understand the impact of climate change on the developmental plasticity...

... biophysical drivers of ecdysis – temperature and humidity – were largely unavailable and were not evaluated. The first postnatal ecdysis of neonatal snakes can be viewed as an adaptive adjustment to the transition from the aqueous environment of the embryo to the aerial environment of the newborn. Hence...

...Marjoriane de Amaral; Maiza Cristina Von Dentz; Suyllieme Machado David; Luiz Carlos Kucharski ABSTRACT Anurans undergo significant physiological changes when exposed to environmental stressors such as low temperatures and humidity. Energy metabolism and substrate management play a crucial role...

...Adèle Léger; Simon B. Cormier; Arianne Blanchard; Hichem A. Menail; Nicolas Pichaud ABSTRACT The metabolic responses of insects to high temperatures have been linked to their mitochondrial substrate oxidation capacity. However, the mechanism behind this mitochondrial flexibility is not well...

... Q 10 of all six performance rate metrics was significantly greater below the dormancy threshold temperature ( Q 10,acute8–2°C =1.5–4.9, mean=3.3) than above ( Q 10,acute14–8°C =1.1–1.9, mean=1.5), inferring a cold constraint. However, 2°C acclimation (temporally more relevant to seasonal cooling...

... organization. Here, I review the physiological and biochemical adaptations of intertidal species to environmental temperature on multiple spatial and temporal scales. With fine-scale datasets for the thermal limits of individuals and for environmental temperature variation at the microhabitat scale, we can map...

...Elizabeth Mendoza; Maya Martinez; Jeffrey P. Olberding; Emanuel Azizi ABSTRACT Changes in temperature alter muscle kinetics and in turn affect whole-organism performance. Some organisms use the elastic recoil of biological springs, structures which are far less temperature sensitive, to power...

... temperature-dependent effects. First, while differences in resting heart rate ( f H ) between groups were predictable based on previous research (range ∼28–65 beats min −1 ), with values for 1°C-acclimated fish slightly higher than those of acutely exposed conspecifics, the resting cardiac output ( ) of 1°C...

...Chloé A. Melanson; Simon G. Lamarre; Suzanne Currie ABSTRACT Understanding the factors affecting the capacity of ectothermic fishes to cope with warming temperature is critical given predicted climate change scenarios. We know that a fish's social environment introduces plasticity in how...

...Willem J. Laursen; Ruocong Tang; Paul A. Garrity ABSTRACT Animals commonly use thermosensation, the detection of temperature and its variation, for defensive purposes: to maintain appropriate body temperature and to avoid tissue damage. However, some animals also use thermosensation to go...