The role of ambient temperature and body mass on body temperature, standard metabolic rate and evaporative water loss in southern African anurans of different habitat specialisation

Mokhatla, Mohlamatsane; Measey, John; Smit, Ben

Title: The role of ambient temperature and body mass on body temperature, standard metabolic rate and evaporative water loss in southern African anurans of different habitat specialisation
Creator: Mokhatla, Mohlamatsane
Creator: Measey, John
Creator: Smit, Ben
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2019
Date: 2019
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/440571
Identifier: vital:73794
Identifier: 10.7717/peerj.7885
Description: Temperature and water availability are two of the most important variables affecting all aspects of an anuran’s key physiological processes such as body temperature (T b), evaporative water loss (EWL) and standard metabolic rate (SMR). Since anurans display pronounced sexual dimorphism, evidence suggests that these processes are further influenced by other factors such as vapour pressure deficit (VPD), sex and body mass (M b). However, a limited number of studies have tested the generality of these results across a wide range of ecologically relevant ambient temperatures (T a), while taking habitat use into account. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of T a on T b, whole-animal EWL and whole-animal SMR in three wild caught African anuran species with different ecological specialisations: the principally aquatic African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), stream-breeding common river frog (Amietia delalandii), and the largely terrestrial raucous toad (Sclerophrys capensis).
Format: 21 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: PeerJ
Relation: Mokhatla, M., Measey, J. and Smit, B., 2019. The role of ambient temperature and body mass on body temperature, standard metabolic rate and evaporative water loss in southern African anurans of different habitat specialisation. PeerJ, 7, p.e7885
Relation: PeerJ volume 7 number 1 1 21 2019
Rights: Publisher
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the authors

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