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Seasonal changes in the thermal environment do not affect microhabitat selection by Psammodromus algirus lizards
Díaz, José A.
Cabezas-Díaz, Sara
Salvador Milla, Alfredo
Lizards
Operative temperatures
Predation risk
Thermoregulation
We studied the thermal consequences of microhabitat selection by Psammodromus algirus lizards by combining data on the frequency of use and relative availability of three different types of microhabitats, with information about the environmental operative temperatures, and their deviations from the lizards selected thermal range, available in these microhabitats. In both seasons, lizards preferred holm oak shrubs and avoided rockrose shrubs and open areas. However, the thermal suitability of holm oaks was highest in July but lowest in May. We suggest that microhabitat preferences were more related to other aspects of lizard ecology (e.g. antipredator behaviour) than to thermal requirements.
This research was supported by DGESIC projects BOS2000-0556, BOS2001-0533, and CGL2004-01151/BOS.
Peer reviewed
2015-06-25T07:41:02Z
2015-06-25T07:41:02Z
2005
artículo
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
Herpetological Journal 15(4): 295-298 (2005)
0268-0130
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/117119
en
http://www.thebhs.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=17&Itemid=42
Sí
none
British Herpetological Society