Raoul Van Damme

TL;DR: The view that the thermal physiology of this lizard is evolutionarily conservative is supported, but the lack of information on the relation between running performance and fitness components impedes rejection of alternative hypotheses.

TL;DR: The performance of world-class athletes in standardized decathlon events is found to be subject to both types of trade-off, after correction has been made for differences between athletes in general ability across all 10 events.

TL;DR: An implicit assumption of the dietary divergence hypothesis is tested, namely that an increase in head size results in a increase in gape width and/or bite force, thereby allowing the larger headed sex to exploit larger prey classes.

TL;DR: A large (861 species) global dataset of lizard body temperatures was used, and the mean annual temperatures across their geographic ranges were examined to examine the relationships between body andmean annual temperatures.

TL;DR: No evidence to suggest that either frass fall or the proportion of caterpillars in the diet varied with forest size is found, and this study does not suggest suboptimal foraging or breeding conditions in small fragments compared to a nearby large forest, for either species.