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Special Issue "Thermal and Hydric Challenges for Species: Evolutionary Patterns and Ecological and Conservation Implications"

A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Diversity".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2023) | Viewed by 1071

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Agustín Camacho

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Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avenida Américo Vespucio, núm 26 Isla de la Cartuja, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: ecophysiology; behavior, ecology; macroecology; herpetofauna; arthropods; ectothermic animals; thermal biology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The climatic challenges faced by species at their geographic limits of distribution will integrate both thermal and water limitations. Because of this, we need a predictive theory and a plentiful dataset for species capacity to deal with thermal and hydric challenges in their environment, and for the populational consequences of failing to do so. In this Special Issue, we will publish high-quality contributions from international authors dealing with this pressing topic. Contributions may be papers describing perspectives, meta-analyses, comparative analyses, or even local case studies that advance core concepts or provide new data on species' thermal and hydric tolerance.

Dr. Agustín Camacho
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Diversity is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • thermo-hydroregulation
  • biogeography
  • climatic challenges

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A Theoretical Thermal Tolerance Function for Ectothermic Animals and Its Implications for Identifying Thermal Vulnerability across Large Geographic Scales
by
Agustín Camacho
,
Michael J. Angilletta, Jr.
and
Ofir Levy
Diversity 2023, 15(5), 680; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15050680 - 19 May 2023
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The time-to-thermal-death curve, or thermal death curve, seeks to represent all the combinations of exposure time and temperature that kill individuals of a species. We present a new theoretical function to describe that time in lizards based on traditional measures of thermal tolerance [...] Read more.
The time-to-thermal-death curve, or thermal death curve, seeks to represent all the combinations of exposure time and temperature that kill individuals of a species. We present a new theoretical function to describe that time in lizards based on traditional measures of thermal tolerance (i.e., preferred body temperatures, voluntary thermal maximum, and the critical thermal maximum). We evaluated the utility of this function in two ways. Firstly, we compared thermal death curves among four species of lizards for which enough data are available. Secondly, we compared the geography of predicted thermal vulnerability based on the thermal death curve. We found that the time to loss of function or death may evolve independently from the critical thermal limits. Moreover, the traditional parameters predicted fewer deleterious sites, systematically situated at lower latitudes and closer to large water bodies (lakes or the coast). Our results highlight the urgency of accurately characterizing thermal tolerance across species to reach a less biased perception of the geography of climatic vulnerability. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal and Hydric Challenges for Species: Evolutionary Patterns and Ecological and Conservation Implications)
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