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Mendoza P, Furuta C, Garcia B, Zena LA, Carciofi AC, Bícego KC. Temperature effects on metabolism and energy requirement during the fast growth phase in the red-footed tortoise, Chelonoidis carbonaria. J Comp Physiol B 2023; 193:661-676. [PMID: 37752253 DOI: 10.1007/s00360-023-01514-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2022] [Revised: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
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Early life is a challenging phase because of the high rates of morphophysiological development and growth. Changes in ambient temperature, which directly affect energy metabolism and digestive functions in ectotherms, may be of great impact during this phase. We addressed this issue in red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria) hatchlings kept in captivity. To this end, we investigated the effect of temperature (28 °C and 18 °C) on mass-specific gross energy intake (GEIm), daily body mass gain (MG), daily intake of gross energy (GEI), digestible energy (DEI), resting metabolic rate (RMR), and specific dynamic action (SDA) components during different seasons in the first 13 months after hatching. Greater GEIm and MG were observed in spring (381.7 ± 84.9 J.g-0.86.day-1 and 0.9 ± 0.4 g.day-1) and summer (356.9 ± 58.9 J.g-0.86.day-1 and 1.0 ± 0.4 g.day-1). The highest and lowest RMRs at 28 °C were observed in spring (36.4 ± 5.1 kJ.kg-1.day-1) and winter (22.4 ± 6.2 kJ.kg-1.day-1), respectively. Regardless season, hatchlings showed greater GEI and DEI, O2 consumption, CO2 production, RMR, maximum metabolic rate after feeding (FMRMAX), and heat increment (FMRMAX- RMR) at 28 °C compared to 18 °C. In addition, the significant body mass influence showed allometric exponents of 0.62 at 28 °C and 0.92 at 18 °C for RMR. Our results indicate an important effect of environmental temperature on energy requirements and utilization in C. carbonaria hatchlings, which is seasonally influenced even in this early phase of life.
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- Pierina Mendoza
- Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, São Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, São Paulo, 14884-900, Brazil.
- Wildhunger-Wildlife Nutrition Advisory, Lima, Peru.
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- Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, São Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, São Paulo, 14884-900, Brazil
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- Department of Biology Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, São Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, São Paulo, 14884-900, Brazil
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, 413 90, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Animal Morphology and Physiology, Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, São Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, São Paulo, 14884-900, Brazil
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- Department of Clinic and Veterinary Surgery, Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, São Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, São Paulo, 14884-900, Brazil
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- Department of Animal Morphology and Physiology, Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, São Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, São Paulo, 14884-900, Brazil.
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Vilizzi L, Piria M, Pietraszewski D, Kopecký O, Špelić I, Radočaj T, Šprem N, Ta KAT, Tarkan AS, Weiperth A, Yoğurtçuoğlu B, Candan O, Herczeg G, Killi N, Lemić D, Szajbert B, Almeida D, Al-Wazzan Z, Atique U, Bakiu R, Chaichana R, Dashinov D, Ferincz Á, Flieller G, Gilles Jr AS, Goulletquer P, Interesova E, Iqbal S, Koyama A, Kristan P, Li S, Lukas J, Moghaddas SD, Monteiro JG, Mumladze L, Olsson KH, Paganelli D, Perdikaris C, Pickholtz R, Preda C, Ristovska M, Švolíková KS, Števove B, Uzunova E, Vardakas L, Verreycken H, Wei H, Zięba G. Development and application of a multilingual electronic decision-support tool for risk screening non-native terrestrial animals under current and future climate conditions. NEOBIOTA 2022. [DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.76.84268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Electronic decision-support tools are becoming an essential component of government strategies to tackle non-native species invasions. This study describes the development and application of a multilingual electronic decision-support tool for screening terrestrial animals under current and future climate conditions: the Terrestrial Animal Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (TAS-ISK). As an adaptation of the widely employed Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (AS-ISK), the TAS-ISK question template inherits from the original Weed Risk Assessment (WRA) and related WRA-type toolkits and complies with the ‘minimum requirements’ for use with the recent European Regulation on invasive alien species of concern. The TAS-ISK consists of 49 basic questions on the species’ biogeographical/historical traits and its biological/ecological interactions, and of 6 additional questions to predict how climate change is likely to influence the risks of introduction, establishment, dispersal and impact of the screened species. Following a description of the main features of this decision-support tool as a turnkey software application and of its graphical user interface with support for 32 languages, sample screenings are provided in different risk assessment areas for one representative species of each of the main taxonomic groups of terrestrial animals supported by the toolkit: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, annelids, insects, molluscs, nematodes, and platyhelminths. The highest-scoring species were the red earthworm Lumbricus rubellus for the Aegean region of Turkey and the New Zealand flatworm Arthurdendyus triangulatus for Croatia. It is anticipated that adoption of this toolkit will mirror that of the worldwide employed AS-ISK, hence allowing to share information and inform decisions for the prevention of entry and/or dispersal of (high-risk) non-native terrestrial animal species – a crucial step to implement early-stage control and eradication measures as part of rapid-response strategies to counteract biological invasions.
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Lapwong Y, Dejtaradol A, Webb JK. Shifts in thermal preference of introduced Asian house geckos (Hemidactylus frenatus) in temperate regions of southeastern Australia. J Therm Biol 2020; 91:102625. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2020.102625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2020] [Revised: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Sanabria EA, Vergara SC, Rodríguez CY, Quiroga LB. Thermophilic response post feeding in Pleurodema nebulosum (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Monte desert, Argentina. J Therm Biol 2020; 90:102605. [PMID: 32479399 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2020.102605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2019] [Revised: 04/20/2020] [Accepted: 04/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We studied the thermophilic response to feeding of a typical desert adapted anuran from the Monte Desert. Our aim was to evaluate thermal changes in the selected body temperature of adult frogs of Pleurodema nebulosum, and measure the intestinal passage time, and food digestion. Our results show that after feeding, they selected higher micro-environmental temperatures ~ + 2 °C than frogs that remained starved. Pleurodema nebulosum would present a postprandial thermophilic response. The time of retention of food in the digestive tract was thermo-dependent, being lower in those individuals who were incubated at high temperatures (25 °C) compared to those subjected to lower temperatures (20 °C). Although we did not detect effects of temperature on digestive efficiency, the mass of faecal material indicates an increase at temperatures closer to the selected ones, suggesting that the defecation rate is influenced by temperature. Laiuoperinae frogs are characterized by explosive breeding behavior and fast growing rate. The digestive efficiency is essential for acquiring energy necessary for growth, reproduction and refuge-seeking, among others. In this framework, the differential selection of temperatures between moments of fasting and feeding allows the frogs to maintain a high digestive efficiency, maximizing the absorption of nutrients.
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- Eduardo A Sanabria
- Instituto de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Filosofía Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 230 (Oeste), 5400, San Juan, Argentina; Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Padre Jorge Contreras 1300, M5502JMA, Mendoza, Argentina; CONICET, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Biotecnología, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina; CONICET, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Filosofía Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 230 (Oeste), 5400, San Juan, Argentina; CONICET, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Filosofía Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 230 (Oeste), 5400, San Juan, Argentina; CONICET, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.
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Plasman M, McCue MD, Reynoso VH, Terblanche JS, Clusella-Trullas S. Environmental temperature alters the overall digestive energetics and differentially affects dietary protein and lipid use in a lizard. J Exp Biol 2019; 222:222/6/jeb194480. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.194480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2018] [Accepted: 02/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Processing food (e.g. ingestion, digestion, assimilation) requires energy referred to as specific dynamic action (SDA) and is at least partially fuelled by oxidation of the nutrients (e.g. proteins and lipids) within the recently ingested meal. In ectotherms, environmental temperature can affect the magnitude and/or duration of the SDA, but is likely to also alter the mixture of nutrients that are oxidized to cover these costs. Here, we examined metabolic rate, gut passage time, assimilation efficiency and fuel use in the lizard Agama atra digesting cricket meals at three ecologically relevant temperatures (20, 25 and 32°C). Crickets were isotopically enriched with 13C-leucine or 13C-palmitic-acid tracers to distinguish between protein and lipid oxidation, respectively. Our results show that higher temperatures increased the magnitude of the SDA peak (by 318% between 32 and 20°C) and gut passage rate (63%), and decreased the duration of the SDA response (by 20% for males and 48% for females). Peak rate of dietary protein oxidation occurred sooner than peak lipid oxidation at all temperatures (70, 60 and 31 h earlier for 20, 25 and 32°C, respectively). Assimilation efficiency of proteins, but not lipids, was positively related to temperature. Interestingly, the SDA response exhibited a notable circadian rhythm. These results show that temperature has a pronounced effect on digestive energetics in A. atra, and that this effect differs between nutrient classes. Variation in environmental temperatures may thus alter the energy budget and nutrient reserves of these animals.
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- Melissa Plasman
- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch 7600, South Africa
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch 7600, South Africa
- Instituto de Biología, Departamento de Zoología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, 04510, Mexico
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch 7600, South Africa
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch 7600, South Africa
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Mathot KJ, Dingemanse NJ, Nakagawa S. The covariance between metabolic rate and behaviour varies across behaviours and thermal types: meta‐analytic insights. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2018; 94:1056-1074. [DOI: 10.1111/brv.12491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2018] [Revised: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Kimberley J. Mathot
- Canada Research Chair in Integrative Ecology, Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of Alberta CW405 Biological Sciences Building, T6G 2E9 Edmonton Alberta Canada
- NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea ResearchDepartment of Coastal Systems and Utrecht University 1790 AB, den Burg, Texel The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Ecology, Department Biology IILudwig‐Maximilians University of Munich Grosshadener Strasse 2, DE‐82152, Planegg‐Martinsried, Munich Germany
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- Evolution and Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental SciencesUniversity of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales 2052 Australia
- Diabetes and Metabolism Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research 384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney New South Wales 2010 Australia
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Population Viability of Nonnative Mediterranean House Geckos (Hemidactylus turcicus) at an Urban Site Near the Northern Invasion Front. J HERPETOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1670/16-173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Muller BJ, Cade BS, Schwarzkopf L. Effects of environmental variables on invasive amphibian activity: using model selection on quantiles for counts. Ecosphere 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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- Benjamin J. Muller
- Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change College of Science and Engineering James Cook University Townsville Queensland 4814 Australia
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- U.S. Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Centre 2150 Centre Ave, Bldg C Fort Collins Colorado 80526 USA
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- Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change College of Science and Engineering James Cook University Townsville Queensland 4814 Australia
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Barnett LK, Phillips BL, Hoskin CJ. Going feral: Time and propagule pressure determine range expansion of Asian house geckos into natural environments. AUSTRAL ECOL 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Louise K. Barnett
- College of Marine & Environmental Sciences; James Cook University; Townsville Queensland 4811 Australia
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- School of Biosciences; University of Melbourne; Parkville Victoria Australia
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- College of Marine & Environmental Sciences; James Cook University; Townsville Queensland 4811 Australia
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Yan Q, Zhu X, Jiang L, Ye M, Sun L, Terblanche JS, Wu R. A computing platform to map ecological metabolism by integrating functional mapping and the metabolic theory of ecology. Brief Bioinform 2016; 18:137-144. [DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbv116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2015] [Revised: 12/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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