Sentences with phrase «of ectotherms»

«While laboratory studies of the effect of temperature on the physiology and behavior have provided significant insights into thermal ecology of ectotherms, the time is ripe to take this knowledge outside the lab to further develop climate change models,» he said.

In contrast, under the same chilly conditions, the tongue movements of ectotherms, which rely fully on a muscle - based system, slowed by 42 percent.

Not exact matches

To get around those limitations, Hirt and her colleagues looked at previously collected data for a wide variety of creatures, including ectotherms (so - called cold - blooded animals) as well as warm - blooded endotherms.

Climate: Bark beetles, like all insects, are ectotherms (an organism whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its environment).

The use of CTmax is a standard approach to assess upper thermal tolerances in ectotherms and is particularly useful for comparisons across species (Beitinger et al., 2000).

Theoretical considerations and some empirical data also indicate that continued climate change at its present pace would be detrimental to many species of marine clams and snails, fish, tropical ectotherms, and some species of plants (examples and citations below).

Against this background we here explore the sensitivity of a tropical ectotherm, the butterfly Bicyclus anynana (Butler 1879), to experimentally simulated heat waves using ecologically realistic diurnal temperature cycles.