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PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY
卷 84, 期 2, 页码 166-174出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/658202
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- Czech Science Foundation [P506/10/2170]
- Czech Ministry of Education [LC06073]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion and Estacion Biologica de Donana, Spain
Seasonal acclimation and thermoregulation represent major components of complex thermal strategies by which ectotherms cope with the heterogeneity of their thermal environment. Some ectotherms possess the acclimatory capacity to shift seasonally their thermoregulatory behavior, but the frequent use of constant acclimation temperatures during experiments and the lack of information about thermal heterogeneity in the field obscures the ecological relevance of this plastic response. We examined the experimentally induced seasonal acclimation of preferred body temperatures (T-p) in alpine newts Ichthyosaura (formerly Triturus) alpestris subjected to a gradual increase in acclimation temperature from 5 degrees C during the winter to a constant 15 degrees C or diel fluctuations between 10 degrees and 20 degrees C during the spring/summer. Both the mean and range of T-p followed the increase in mean acclimation temperature without the influence of diel temperature fluctuations. The direction and magnitude of this acclimatory capacity has the potential to increase the time window available for thermoregulation. Although thermoregulation and thermal acclimation are often considered as separate but coadapted adjustments to thermal heterogeneity, their combined response is employed by newts to tackle seasonal variation in a thermoregulatory-challenging aquatic environment.
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