thermal sensitivity
Geographic variation in thermal sensitivity of jumping performance in the frog Limnodynastes peronii
... in thermal characteristics amongst the different populations of ...the thermal sensitivity of their jumping performance in response to long-term changes in their thermal environment (Wilson ...
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Compensation for environmental change by complementary shifts of thermal sensitivity and thermoregulatory behaviour in an ectotherm
... The thermal sensitivity of performance may have co-evolved with preferred body temperatures, and the reaction norm of a genotype may include different phenotypes that have evolved in different ...
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Dynamics and thermal sensitivity of ballistic and non ballistic feeding in salamanders
... and thermal robustness of elastically powered movements, we compared feeding dynamics at a range of temperatures (5 – 25°C) in two species of terrestrial plethodontid salamanders, Plethodon metcalfi and Ensatina ...
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Shallow groundwater thermal sensitivity to climate change and land cover disturbances: derivation of analytical expressions and implications for stream temperature modeling
... the thermal regimes of certain headwater streams or smaller rivers (Caissie, ...the thermal inertia of the sub- surface soil–water matrix, groundwater-dominated streams and rivers typically exhibit ...
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Could thermal sensitivity of mitochondria determine species distribution in a changing climate?
... determined from OXP-I, II, it putatively more closely reflects mitochondrial OXP and its efficiencies in vivo. Part of CII is succinate dehydrogenase, which is reported to be sensitive to heat stress in ectotherm ...
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Thermal Sensitivity of Freshwater Mussels: Incorporating Benthic Ecology into Laboratory Mesocosm Experiments.
... 2 thermal functional guilds – tolerant and sensitive – based on physiological condition and performance at 35°C (Spooner and Vaughn ...upper thermal tolerance limit, based on water-only temperature ...
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Thermal Sensitivity Coefficients of the Fabrication Materials Based A thermal Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) in Wide Area Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Optical Networks
... the thermal sensitivity coefficients of the three different fabrication materials based a thermal Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) under the spectral wavelength and ambient temperature sensing in wide ...
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Effect of negative emotions evoked by light, noise and taste on trigeminal thermal sensitivity
... Influence of conditioning stimuli on affective state The experimental visual stimuli used in previous studies to examine the affective processes were composed of emo- tional videos [33,34] or photos [35,36]. Viewing ...
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The Thermal Sensitivity of the Lateralis Organs of Xenopus
... The response to temperature change is similar to that described by Sand 1938 in Raja: a fall of temperature is followed by an increase in frequency of discharge, and a rise in temperatur[r] ...
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The metabolic, locomotor and sex dependent effects of elevated temperature on Trinidadian guppies: limited capacity for acclimation
... the thermal sensitivity of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) by describing the effects of developmental temperature on mass, burst speed and RMR, and investigated whether these tropical fish can ...
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Intrapopulational variation in the standard metabolic rate of insects: repeatability, thermal dependence and sensitivity (Q10) of oxygen consumption in a cricket
... Studies focusing on physiological variation among individuals, and its possible evolutionary consequences, are scarce. A trait can only be a target of natural selection if it is consistent over time, that is, a trait ...
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Striped marsh frog (Limnodynastes peronii) tadpoles do not acclimate metabolic performance to thermal variability
... the thermal sensitivity of physiological rate ...the thermal sensitivity of rate functions should decrease to buffer the effect of temperature variability and to widen the performance ...
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Arctic Ocean sea ice snow depth evaluation and bias sensitivity in CCSM
... In order to save computation time, the fully active POP2 is replaced with a SOM in the sensitivity experiments de- scribed in Sects. 4 and 5. The SOM serves as a heat reservoir, while calculating a surface ocean ...
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Experimental Approaches to Understanding Temperature Responses of Select North Carolina Macroinvertebrates
... the thermal optimum for each species as the weighted average of MSST, with a weighting factor of relative abundance at a given site (Hill & Hawkins ...to thermal optima, upper and lower thermal ...
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CHROMOSOME REJOINING CAPACITY WITH RESPECT TO BREAKAGE SENSITIVITY TO X-RAYS AND THERMAL NEUTRONS
... microspore interphase. As with the SPARROW and MALDAWER experiments, chromo- some fragments were used as an index of breakage sensitivity and dicentrics and ring chromosomes were[r] ...
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Development of a high resolution infrared thermographic imaging method as a diagnostic tool for acute undifferentiated limp in young children
... The fact that reliable, or even more definitive, results may be obtained in the sitting position removes the need for other imaging positions. This is an important outcome, particularly in reference to the diagnosis of ...
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Sensitivity study on influencing parameters of transformer thermal model with directed oil flow
... The thermal stress reduces the mechanical and dielectric performance of the insulation. The experiments, which were carried out by Montsinger indicate that when the transformer temperature has the values between ...
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On the sensitivity of 3-D thermal convection codes to numerical discretization: a model intercomparison
... The numerical studies are done using two state-of- the-art models, CitcomS-3.1.1 (http://www.geodynamics. org/cig/software/citcoms) and a pseudospectral radial basis function–Chebyshev model (Wright et al., 2010) ...
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Sensitivity of the tropical climate to an interhemispheric thermal gradient: the role of tropical ocean dynamics
... to a slab or to a full oceanic model. They find that with dy- namic ocean heat transport the tropical precipitation response is weaker with, in this case, most of the cross-equatorial heat transport carried out by the ...
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Temperature characterisation of long period gratings for sensor applications
... wavelength due to a reduction in air temperature was recorded and is shown in Figure 4 (Graph α ). A temperature coefficient of -0.2569 nm/ o C was obtained for Fibre A from the best-fit equation of the line. The same ...
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