Understanding the role that basking plays in thermal biology is important because maintaining body temperatures within certain limits is essential to survival, growth and reproduction, and may affect responses to climate change.  Leer más.

A new study published in Science and led by Monash University biologists reveals that the energy cost of reproduction is far greater than previously believed. Leer más.

Morphological diversity within organisms can arise from factors other than genetic diversity alone, and local adaptations and combinations of various factors are also involved in shaping morphology. Leer más.

This study investigated the effect of the growing season and individual growth rates on the occurrence of larval overwintering in Babina subaspera by laboratory-rearing experiments. Leer más.

We used commercially available, multi-purpose light-level geolocator dataloggers to continuously record light environment and time spent out of water during 5-months (1 May to 9 September 2021) in an ectothermic freshwater turtle species, the northern map turtle (Graptemys geographica).  Leer más.