From conceptual to computational: Cost and benefits of lizard thermoregulation revisited
Autor: | William I. Lutterschmidt, John G. Alford |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Cost–benefit analysis Behavior Animal Physiology Spatial structure Computer science media_common.quotation_subject Lizards Models Theoretical Mathematical proof 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Biochemistry 010601 ecology Conceptual model Animals Computational analysis General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Energy Metabolism Mathematical economics Developmental Biology media_common Body Temperature Regulation |
Zdroj: | Journal of thermal biology. 78 |
ISSN: | 0306-4565 |
Popis: | A classic paper detailed conceptual analyses of behavioral thermoregulation (Huey and Slatkin, 1976) and has served as the theoretical foundation for hundreds of investigative studies. Most recently, investigators have revisited this theoretical presentation to offer additional interpretation for both heterogeneity and spatial structure of temperature and how it may influence energetic costs (Sears and Angilletta, 2015). Interestingly, this foundational presentation by Huey and Slatkin, over 40 years ago, has never received formal computational analyses to address mathematically the postulates of this conceptual model. Here we use functions that closely mimic those that were described by Huey and Slatkin to provide both a theoretical and computational analysis for the cost and benefits of lizard thermoregulation. We demonstrate both the utility and inherent accuracy of their analyses using a model that was developed conceptually without the use of now readily available computational tools. But contrary to Huey and Slatkin's analyses, we provide a mathematical proof that perfect thermoregulation is never an optimal strategy and show by computational analysis that thermoregulatory strategy (k ) may decrease, not increase, with increasing cost. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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