Effects of Warm Temperatures on Metabolic Rate and Evaporative Water Loss in Tuatara, a Cool-Climate Rhynchocephalian Survivor

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Effects of Warm Temperatures on Metabolic Rate and Evaporative Water Loss in Tuatara, a Cool-Climate Rhynchocephalian Survivor

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The thermal sensitivity of physiological rates is a key characteristic of organisms. For tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus), the last surviving member of the reptilian order Rhynchocephalia and an unusually cold-tolerant reptile, we aimed to clarify responses in indices of metabolic rate (oxygen consumption [VO2] and carbon dioxide production [VCO2]) as well as rates of total evaporative water loss (TEWL) to temperatures at the warmer end of the known tolerated range; currently, patterns for metab...

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Date created

2018-07-01

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Jarvie, Scott / Jowett, Tim / Thompson, Michael B. / Seddon, Philip J. / Cree, Alison

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/25758

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Life Sciences & Biomedicine / Physiology / Science & Technology / Zoology

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