干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Thermal ecology of the Atlas day gecko Quedenfeldtia moerens in an arid area of Morocco, and a comparison with its congener Q. trachyblepharus

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DOI	10.1163/15685381-bja10034
	Thermal ecology of the Atlas day gecko Quedenfeldtia moerens in an arid area of Morocco, and a comparison with its congener Q. trachyblepharus
	Mouadi, Jalal; El Mouden, El Hassan; Bouazza, Abdellah; Aourir, Mohamed
通讯作者	El Mouden, E (corresponding author), Cadi Ayyad Univ, Fac Sci Semlalia, Lab Water Biodivers & Climat Change, Marrakech 40000, Morocco.
来源期刊	AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA
ISSN	0173-5373
EISSN	1568-5381
出版年	2021
卷号	42 期号:1 页码:81-91
英文摘要	The Atlas day gecko, Quedenfeldtia moerens, a Moroccan endemic lizard, is strictly diurnal and widely distributed across the dry Atlas Mountains. We quantified thermoregulation in adult males and adult females during their active season in the L' kest Mountain at 1300 m a.s.l., Anti-Atlas region of Morocco. The operative temperatures and air temperatures were sampled using data-loggers in the field from 2016 to 2018. Body temperatures of active lizards and substrate temperatures in the field were simultaneously measured. Finally, we measured preferred body temperatures (T-set) in a laboratory thermal gradient for 24 adult geckos. Mean T(set)was 33.3 +/- 0.3 degrees C, with the mean 25% and 75% quartiles being 32.3 +/- 0.3 degrees C and 34.6 +/- 0.3 degrees C, respectively. Active lizards rarely reached their T-set range from March to June, but spent most of the day within T-set in July and August. Our study suggests that Q. moerens have higher T-set than its congeneric Q. trachyblepharus living at high altitude. Likewise, thermoregulatory effectiveness of Q. moerens showed an increase from spring to summer while it was the opposite for Q. trachyblephants.
英文关键词	ectotherm effectiveness gecko operative environmental temperatures Quedenfeldtia seasonal variation thermoregulatory behaviour
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000606322600007
WOS关键词	THERMOREGULATORY BEHAVIOR ; OPERATIVE TEMPERATURES ; BODY-TEMPERATURE ; DIEL VARIATION ; LIZARDS ; ENVIRONMENT ; SQUAMATA ; ALTITUDE ; FIELD ; POPULATIONS
WOS类目	Zoology
WOS研究方向	Zoology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/347690
作者单位	[Mouadi, Jalal; Aourir, Mohamed] Ibn Zohr Univ, Fac Sci, Ent Biodivers & Ecosyst Functioning, Agadir, Morocco; [El Mouden, El Hassan] Cadi Ayyad Univ, Fac Sci Semlalia, Lab Water Biodivers & Climat Change, Marrakech 40000, Morocco; [Bouazza, Abdellah] Ibn Zohr Univ, Polydisciplinary Fac Taroudante, Taroudante, Morocco
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mouadi, Jalal,El Mouden, El Hassan,Bouazza, Abdellah,et al. Thermal ecology of the Atlas day gecko Quedenfeldtia moerens in an arid area of Morocco, and a comparison with its congener Q. trachyblepharus[J],2021,42(1):81-91.
APA	Mouadi, Jalal,El Mouden, El Hassan,Bouazza, Abdellah,&Aourir, Mohamed.(2021).Thermal ecology of the Atlas day gecko Quedenfeldtia moerens in an arid area of Morocco, and a comparison with its congener Q. trachyblepharus.AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA,42(1),81-91.
MLA	Mouadi, Jalal,et al."Thermal ecology of the Atlas day gecko Quedenfeldtia moerens in an arid area of Morocco, and a comparison with its congener Q. trachyblepharus".AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA 42.1(2021):81-91.