Future advantages in energetics, activity time, and habitats predicted in a high-altitude pit viper with climate warming

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 446-458

  Huang, Shu Ping ^a,b   Chiou, Chyi Rong ^c   Lin, Te En ^d   Tu, Ming Chung ^a   Lin, Chia Chen ^a   Porter, Warren P ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d ENDEMIC SPECIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Digestion; Elevation; Mechanistic model; Metabolism; Reptile; Temperature; Trimeresurus gracilis

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALTITUDE; BIOENERGETICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGESTION; ELEVATION; ENERGY BUDGET; GRASSLAND; HABITAT TYPE; METABOLISM; SNAKE; SOLAR RADIATION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME ALLOCATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

TAIWAN; TAROKO NATIONAL PARK;

ANIMALIA; CROTALINAE; REPTILIA; TRIMERESURUS; TRIMERESURUS GRACILIS;

EID: 84875585256     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12040     Document Type: Article

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