Temperature Induced Predation Impact of Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) on Growth, Development, and Survival of Larvae and Tadpole of Bufotes variabilis (Amphibia: Anura)

Khas, Z. Taheri; Vaissi, Somaye; Yaghobi, S.; Sharifi, Mozafar

doi:10.1134/s1067413619010119

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“…Temperature dictates the rates of several biochemical and physiological processes in amphibians, affecting, for example, the time to metamorphosis and the total length of tadpoles reared under higher temperatures (Angilletta 2009, Goldstein et al 2017, Khas et al 2019, McDiarmid & Altig 1999. Our results provide An Acad Bras Cienc (2024) 96(2) e20230671 8 | 17 evidence that the effects of acclimation to higher temperatures affect the tadpoles development, resulting in reduced days to metamorphosis, whereas growth rate, size and survival were not significantly affected.…”

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

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KATZENBERGER

et al. 2024

An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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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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confidence: 99%