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Effects of temperature on growth, development, and survival of amphibian larvae: macroecological and evolutionary patterns

AutorInnen: 
Alves-Ferreira, G., Fortunato, D. S., Katzenberger, M., Fava, F. G., Solé, M.
Erscheinungsjahr: 
2024
Vollständiger Titel: 
Effects of temperature on growth, development, and survival of amphibian larvae: macroecological and evolutionary patterns
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Publiziert in: 
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Publikationstyp: 
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI Name: 
https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202420230671
Keywords: 
Acclimation, metamorphosis, tadpoles, body size, temperature size-rule, climate change
Bibliographische Angaben: 
Alves-Ferreira, G., Fortunato, D. S., Katzenberger, M., Fava, F. G., Solé, M. (2024): Effects of temperature on growth, development, and survival of amphibian larvae: macroecological and evolutionary patterns. - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências | Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2024) 96(2): e20230671; https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202420230671
Abstract: 

Temperature affects the rate of biochemical and physiological processes in amphibians, influencing metamorphic traits. Temperature patterns, as those observed in latitudinal and altitudinal clines, may impose different challenges on amphibians depending on how species are geographically distributed. Moreover, species’ response to environmental temperatures may also be phylogenetically constrained. Here, we explore the effects of acclimation to higher temperatures on tadpole survival, development, and growth, using a meta-analytical approach. We also evaluate whether the latitude and climatic variables at each collection site can explain differences in species’ response to increasing temperature and whether these responses are phylogenetically conserved. Our results show that species that develop at relatively higher temperatures reach metamorphosis faster. Furthermore, absolute latitude at each collection site may partially explain heterogeneity in larval growth rate. Phylogenetic signal of traits in response to temperature indicates a non-random process in which related species resemble each other less than expected under Brownian motion evolution (BM) in all traits, except survival. The integration of studies in a meta-analytic framework allowed us to explore macroecological and macroevolutionary patterns and provided a better understanding of the effects of climate change on amphibians.

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