Natural history predicts patterns of thermal vulnerability in amphibians from the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil.

ABSTRACT: In the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest (AF), amphibians (625 species) face habitat degradation leading to stressful thermal conditions that constrain animal activity (e.g., foraging and reproduction). Data on thermal ecology for these species are still scarce. We tested the hypothesis that environmental occupation affects the thermal tolerance of amphibian species more than their phylogenetic relationships. We evaluated patterns of thermal tolerance of 47 amphibian species by assessing critical thermal maxima and warming tolerances, relating these variables with ecological covariates (e.g., adult macro- and microhabitat and site of larval development). We used mean and maximum environmental temperature, ecological covariates, and morphological measurements in the phylogenetic generalized lea

SUBMITTER: Carilo Filho LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8668723 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature