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DOI10.1111/1365-2435.12966
Body temperature distributions of active diurnal lizards in three deserts: Skewed up or skewed down?
Huey, Raymond B.1; Pianka, Eric R.2
通讯作者Huey, Raymond B.
来源期刊FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
ISSN0269-8463
EISSN1365-2435
出版年2018
卷号32期号:2页码:334-344
英文摘要

1. The performance of ectotherms integrated over time depends in part on the position and shape of the distribution of body temperatures (T-b) experienced during activity. For several complementary reasons, physiological ecologists have long expected that T-b distributions during activity should have a long left tail (left-skewed), but only infrequently have they quantified the magnitude and direction of T-b skewness in nature.


2. To evaluate whether left-skewed T-b distributions are general for diurnal desert lizards, we compiled and analysed T-b (Sigma = 9,023 temperatures) from our own prior studies of active desert lizards in three continents (25 species in Western Australia, 10 in the Kalahari Desert of Africa and 10 species in western North America). We gathered these data over several decades, using standardized techniques.


3. Many species showed significantly left-skewed T-b distributions, even when records were restricted to summer months. However, magnitudes of skewness were always small, such that mean T-b were never more than 1 degrees C lower than median T-b. The significance of T-b skewness was sensitive to sample size, and power tests reinforced this sensitivity.


4. The magnitude of skewness was not obviously related to phylogeny, desert, body size or median body temperature. Moreover, a formal phylogenetic analysis is inappropriate because geography and phylogeny are confounded (i.e. are highly collinear).


5. Skewness might be limited if lizards pre-warm inside retreats before emerging in the morning, emerge only when operative temperatures are high enough to speed warming to activity T-b, or if cold lizards are especially wary and difficult to spot or catch. Telemetry studies may help evaluate these possibilities.


英文关键词body temperature distribution desert lizards ectotherm skewed distribution thermal biology thermoregulation
类型Article
语种英语
国家USA
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000424350000010
WOS关键词IGUANA DIPSOSAURUS DORSALIS ; JENSENS INEQUALITY ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; THERMOREGULATION ; PERFORMANCE ; ECTOTHERMS ; PHYSIOLOGY ; EVOLUTION ; ECOLOGY ; FIELD
WOS类目Ecology
WOS研究方向Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/209497
作者单位1.Univ Washington, Dept Biol, Seattle, WA 98195 USA;
2.Univ Texas Austin, Dept Integrat Biol, Austin, TX 78712 USA
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Huey, Raymond B.,Pianka, Eric R.. Body temperature distributions of active diurnal lizards in three deserts: Skewed up or skewed down?[J],2018,32(2):334-344.
APA Huey, Raymond B.,&Pianka, Eric R..(2018).Body temperature distributions of active diurnal lizards in three deserts: Skewed up or skewed down?.FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY,32(2),334-344.
MLA Huey, Raymond B.,et al."Body temperature distributions of active diurnal lizards in three deserts: Skewed up or skewed down?".FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY 32.2(2018):334-344.
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