Body surface temperature and length in relation to the thermal biology of lizards

Bioscience Horizons

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 136-142

  Garrick, Daniel ^a,b  

^a CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Flat 4 ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heliothermy; Length; Lizard; Thigmothermy

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149312462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17547431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biohorizons/hzn014     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Nelson DO, Heath JE, Prosser CL (1984) Evolution of temperature regulatory mechanisms. Am Zool 24: 791-807.
2. Pough FH, Janis CM, Heiser JB (2005) Vertebrate Life, 7th edn. New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.
3. Gans C, Pough FH (1982) Physiological ecology: its debt to reptilian studies, its value to students of reptiles. In C Gans, eds, Biology of the Reptilia. New York: Academic Press, pp. 1-13.
4. Adolph SC (1990) Influence of behavioural thermoregulation on microhabitat use by two Sceloporus lizards. Ecology 71: 315-327. (Pubitemid 20425408)
5. King D, Green B, Herrera E (1994) Thermoregulation in a large Teiid lizard, Tupinambis teguixin, in Venezuela. Copeia 3: 806-808. (Pubitemid 2128281)
6. Schmidt-Nielsen K (1997) Animal Physiology, 5th edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Pough FH, Gans C (1982) The vocabulary of reptilian thermoregulation. In C Gans, eds, Biology of the Reptilia. New York: Academic Press, pp. 17-23.
8. Belliure J, Carrascal LM (2002) Influence of heat transmission mode on heating rates and on the selection of patches for heating in a Mediterranean lizard. Physiol Biochem Zool 75: 369-376. (Pubitemid 35181489)
9. Belliure J, Carrascal LM, Díaz JA (1996) Covariation of thermal biology and foraging mode in two Mediterranean Lacertid lizards. Ecology 77: 1163-1173.
10. Avery RA (1982) Field studies of body temperatures and thermoregulation. In C Gans, eds, Biology of the Reptilia. New York: Academic Press, pp. 93-166.
11. Kearney M, Predavec M (2000) Do nocturnal ectotherms thermoregulate? A study of the temperate gecko Christinus marmoratus. Ecology 81: 2984-2996.
12. Huey RB, Webster TP (1975) Thermal biology of a solitary lizard: Anolis marmoratus of Guadeloupe. Ecology 56: 445-452.
13. Rummery C, Shine R, Houston DL et al. (1995) Thermal biology of the Australian forest dragon, Hypsilurus spinipes (Agamidae). Copeia: 818-827. (Pubitemid 3019464)
14. Morgan KR (1988) Body temperature, energy metabolism, and stamina in two Neotropical forest lizards (Ameiva, Teiidae). J Herpetol 22: 236-241.
15. Auffenberg W (1981) The Behavioural Ecology of the Komodo Monitor. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida.
16. Stevenson RD (1985) Body size and limits to the daily range of body temperature in terrestrial ectotherms. Am Nat 125: 102-117.
17. Mautz WJ (1994) Thermal biology and microhabitats of Xantusiid lizards. In PR Brown, JW Wright, eds. Herpetology of the North American Deserts. Excelsior: Southwestern Herpetologists Society, pp. 227-238.
18. Reid REH (1997) Dinosaurian physiology: The case for " intermediate" dinosaurs". In JO Farlow, MK Brett-Surman, eds, The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 449-473.
19. Gillooly JF, Allen AP, Charnov EL (2006) Dinosaur fossils predict body temperatures. PLoS Biol 4: 0001-0003.
20. Cowles RB (1958) Possible origin of dermal temperature regulation. Evolution 12: 347-357.
21. Zar JH (1996) Biostatistical Analysis. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
22. Licht P, Bennet AF (1972) A scaleless snake: tests of the role of reptilian scales in water loss and heat transfer. Copeia: 702-707.
23. Marcellini DL, Peters A (1982) Preliminary observations on endogenous heat production after feeding in Python molurus. J Herpetol 16: 92-95.
24. Tattersall GJ, Milsom WK, Abe AS et al. (2004) The thermogenesis of digestion in rattlesnakes. J Exp Biol 207: 579-585. (Pubitemid 38231171)
25. Bartholomew GA (1982) Physiological control of body temperature. In C Gans, eds. Biology of the Reptilia. New York: Academic Press, pp.167-211.
26. Pough FH, Andrews RM, Cadle JE et al. (2004) Herpetology, 3rd eds. New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.
27. Bakker RT (1986) The Dinosaur Heresies. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.
28. Díaz JA (1994) Field thermoregulatory behaviour in the western Canarian lizard Gallotia galloti. J Herpetol 28: 325-333. (Pubitemid 2147628)
29. Wilmer P, Stone G, Johnston I (2005) Environmental Physiology of Animals. Oxford: Blackwell.
30. Ashton KG, Feldman CR (2003) Bergmann's rule in nonavian reptiles: turtles follow it, lizards and snakes reverse it. Evolution 57: 1151-1163. (Pubitemid 36726569)
31. Bennett AF (1987) Evolution of the control of body temperature: is warmer better? In P Dejours, L Bolis, CR Taylor, et al., eds. Comparative Physiology: Life in Water and on Land. Padova: Fidia Research Series, IX-Liviana Press. pp. 421-431.
32. Avery RA (1979) Lizards: A Study in Thermoregulation. London: Edward Arnold.
33. Regal PJ (1967) Voluntary hypothermia in reptiles. Science New Series 155: 1551-1553.
34. Tercafs RR (1963) Transmission of ultra-violet, visible and infra-red radiation through the keratinous layer of reptile skin (Serpentes and Sauria). Ecology 44: 214-218.