Alex R. Gunderson

TL;DR: This analysis indicates that behavioural and evolutionary mechanisms will be critical in allowing ectotherms to buffer themselves from extreme temperatures, and proposes that limited potential for behavioural plasticity favours the evolution of greater plasticity in physiological traits, consistent with the ‘Bogert effect’.

TL;DR: The find that multi-stressor experiments have rarely incorporated naturalistic physicochemical variation into their designs, and the importance of doing so to make ecologically relevant inferences about physiological responses to global change is emphasized.

TL;DR: The recent introduction of the Puerto Rican lizard Anolis cristatellus to Miami, Florida is used to test the thermal rigidity hypothesis and demonstrates that changes in thermal tolerance occurred relatively rapidly, which strongly suggests that the thermal physiology of tropical lizards is more labile than previously proposed.

TL;DR: Variation in the current biophysical and ecophysiological conditions experienced by A. cristatellus is characterized by integrating fine-scale measurements of thermal microhabitats with data on body temperatures and physiological performance capacities to demonstrate how variation in these parameters can influence population susceptibility to climate warming across a species range.

TL;DR: Using direct metrics of bacterial activity, a current conflict in the literature is resolved; melanized feathers are more resistant to FDB than unmelanized feathers and autoclaving feathers influences FDB activity on them, and thus autoclave should be avoided in future studies.