Ectothermic animals, such as amphibians and reptiles, are particularly sensitive to rapidly
warming global temperatures. One response in these organisms may be to evolve aspects …

Understanding variation in the diet of widely distributed species can help us to predict how
they respond to future environmental and anthropogenic changes. We studied the diet of the …

Ectotherms are classic models for understanding life‐history tradeoffs, including the
reproduction–somatic maintenance tradeoffs that may be reflected in telomere length and …

The red fox Vulpes vulpes is one of the world's most widespread carnivores. A key to its
success has been its broad, opportunistic diet. The fox was introduced to Australia about …

Abstract Diurnal basking (“sunning”) is common in many ectotherms and is generally
thought to be a behavioural mechanism for thermoregulation. Recent studies have reported …

A variety of phenotypic traits in reptiles are affected by conditions during embryonic
development, a phenomenon known as developmental plasticity. In particular, many traits in …

Many organisms, including cosmopolitan drosophilids, show circadian plasticity, varying
their activity with changing dawn–dusk intervals. How this behaviour evolves is unclear …

The study of consistent between-individual behavioural variation in single (animal
personality) and across two or more behavioural traits (behavioural syndrome) is a central …

Aim Physiological responses to climate can be used to quantify the environmental limits that
a species can tolerate and are, therefore, key to biogeographical studies. Several …

Background The mammal intestinal microbiota is involved in various physiological
processes and plays a key role in host environment adaption. However, for non-human …