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DOI10.1111/geb.12643
The Eurasian hot nightlife: Environmental forces associated with nocturnality in lizards
Vidan, Enav1; Roll, Uri2,3; Bauer, Aaron4; Grismer, Lee5; Guo, Peng6; Maza, Erez1; Novosolov, Maria1; Sindaco, Roberto7,8; Wagner, Philipp4; Belmaker, Jonathan1,9; Meiri, Shai1,9
通讯作者Vidan, Enav
来源期刊GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
ISSN1466-822X
EISSN1466-8238
出版年2017
卷号26期号:11页码:1316-1325
英文摘要

Aim: Lizards are ancestrally diurnal, and most of them remain so. Nocturnality is common among lizards, but the environmental factors associated with lizard nocturnal activity are still unknown. Here, we contrasted the ambient temperature and productivity hypotheses, where we predicted that cold temperatures will pose a stonger limit to nocturnal species richness than diurnal lizards. Moreover, we contrasted the relative importance of annual, day and night mean temperatures to pinpoint the drivers of nocturnal lizard richness.


Location: Mainland Eurasia.


Methods: We collected distribution range and activity time data for all 1,113 lizard species found throughout mainland Eurasia. This represents the largest geographical scope to date, for studies of lizard species richness. We examined the spatial patterns of nocturnal species richness in relationship to diurnal species richness across environmental gradients of ambient temperature and productivity.


Results: Nocturnal lizards are richest in the tropics and in deserts, and their richness decreases with latitude. However, nocturnal lizards are absent from the highest latitudes and coldest regions inhabited by lizards. Diurnal and nocturnal lizards respond in a similar manner to climatic factors. Ambient temperature has a strong influence on both, whereas productivity is more tightly related to the proportion of nocturnal species.


Main conclusions: Nocturnality is widespread among Eurasian lizards. However, nocturnal lizards are absent from invariably cold regions, and low temperatures seem to be a limiting factor for lizard activity period. We suggest that the year-round warm nights of the tropics reduce the cost of being active at night and open the nocturnal niche for many lizards. In hot deserts, the combination of hot days and aridity increases the cost of diurnal activity, whereas nocturnal activity provides a shelter from these extreme conditions.


英文关键词ambient temperature hypothesis night temperature productivity hypothesis richness
类型Article
语种英语
国家Israel ; England ; USA ; Peoples R China ; Italy ; Germany
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000413906800010
WOS关键词LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENT ; SPECIES RICHNESS ; LOW-TEMPERATURE ; BODY TEMPERATURES ; GROWTH-RATE ; LOW-COST ; ECOLOGY ; NICHE ; PERFORMANCE ; PATTERNS
WOS类目Ecology ; Geography, Physical
WOS研究方向Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Physical Geography
来源机构Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ; University of Oxford
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/199377
作者单位1.Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Zool, IL-6997801 Tel Aviv, Israel;
2.Univ Oxford, Sch Geog & Environm, Oxford, England;
3.Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Mitrani Dept Desert Ecol, Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel;
4.Villanova Univ, Dept Biol, Villanova, PA 19085 USA;
5.La Sierra Univ, Dept Biol, Riverside, CA USA;
6.Yibin Univ, Coll Life Sci & Food Engn, Yibin, Sichuan, Peoples R China;
7.Museo Civ Sotria Nat, Turin, Italy;
8.Zool Staatssammlung Munchen, Munich, Germany;
9.Tel Aviv Univ, Steinhardt Museum Nat Hist, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Vidan, Enav,Roll, Uri,Bauer, Aaron,et al. The Eurasian hot nightlife: Environmental forces associated with nocturnality in lizards[J]. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, University of Oxford,2017,26(11):1316-1325.
APA Vidan, Enav.,Roll, Uri.,Bauer, Aaron.,Grismer, Lee.,Guo, Peng.,...&Meiri, Shai.(2017).The Eurasian hot nightlife: Environmental forces associated with nocturnality in lizards.GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY,26(11),1316-1325.
MLA Vidan, Enav,et al."The Eurasian hot nightlife: Environmental forces associated with nocturnality in lizards".GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 26.11(2017):1316-1325.
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