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DOI | 10.1016/j.actao.2019.02.003 |
Belowground thermoregulation in Namibian desert spiders that burrow their own chemostats | |
Mulder, Christian; Conti, Erminia; Costa, Giovanni | |
通讯作者 | Mulder, Christian |
来源期刊 | ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
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ISSN | 1146-609X |
EISSN | 1873-6238 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 96页码:18-23 |
英文摘要 | Body size aggregates multiple traits, ranging from body mass and feeding behaviour up to reproductive strategies and individual performance, and depicts the environmental fitness. Some environmental predictors like temperature can therefore be seen as multilayer factors, causing trait distribution to be multifaceted. This is remarkably evident for Ariadna Audouin (Araneae: Segestriidae) spiders, also known as corolla spiders, which were sampled at the end of the Austral Summer in the Central Namib Desert (Namibia). Here we show that these peculiar sit-and-wait spiders are able to thermoregulate behaviourally by digging until the most appropriate soil depth. This ecological process makes the actual habitat temperature at the bottom of the burrow the strongest determinant for a constant metabolic rate of soil ectotherms as computed according to the Metabolic Theory of Ecology. |
英文关键词 | Ariadna Body mass and size Burrows Central Namib desert Metabolic theory of ecology Temperature Trait distribution |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Italy |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000465364800003 |
WOS关键词 | TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCE ; BODY-SIZE ; BIOLOGY ; MASS ; TOOL |
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/2XILL650/213849 |
作者单位 | Univ Catania, Dept Biol Geol & Environm Sci, I-95124 Catania, Italy |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mulder, Christian,Conti, Erminia,Costa, Giovanni. Belowground thermoregulation in Namibian desert spiders that burrow their own chemostats[J],2019,96:18-23. |
APA | Mulder, Christian,Conti, Erminia,&Costa, Giovanni.(2019).Belowground thermoregulation in Namibian desert spiders that burrow their own chemostats.ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY,96,18-23. |
MLA | Mulder, Christian,et al."Belowground thermoregulation in Namibian desert spiders that burrow their own chemostats".ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 96(2019):18-23. |
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