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Aerial versus aquatic gas exchange in salamanders in response to environmental hypercapnia /
(1984)
All animals, acclimated at 20(DEGREES)C and LD 12:12, were subjected to a 3 hr control period of normoxic normocapnia in both media. Necturus was then exposed to aquatic hypercapnia of P(, CO(, 2)) = 20-130 mm Hg, and the ...
Comparative physiology and macroecology of thermal tolerance in ectothermic vertebrates with correlates of phylogeny and biogeography.
(1997)
An organism's distribution and geographic range result from physiological tolerances and its ability to adjust physiological processes to maximize survival, growth, and reproduction under a diversity of environmental factors ...
The ontogeny of diet in the Mexican spiny-tailed iguana, Ctenosaura pectinata: Physiological mechanisms and ecological consequences.
(1999)
The foraging ecology and digestive physiology of a natural size-structured population of iguanid lizards (Ctenosaura pectinata) was studied through two wet and two dry seasons in a tropical deciduous thorn forest in central ...