Warming nighttime temperatures and prey availability interact to influence digestive physiology in prairie lizards (Sceloporus consobrinus)

Description

The current study examined the interactions between nighttime warming and prey availability on physiology in praire lizards (Sceloporus consobrinus). There were three nighttime warming treatments, referred to as "current conditions", "2C warming", and "4C wamring" and three prey availability treatments, referred to as "high", "moderate" and "low". We quantified food consumption (kJ), digestive passage time (hours), fecal production (kj), urate production (kJ), metabolizable energy intake (kJ), and assimilated energy (kJ). OVerall, we found interactions between nighttime warming and prey availability on food consumption, passage time, and metabolizable energy. We found direct effects of nighttime warming on fecal and urate production. There is one dataset file, titled "nightwarming_prey_dataset.csv". There are two files containing adjusted mean values used to create plots. One file contains adjusted means for MEI, passage time, and food consumption. The second file contains adjusted means for fecal and urate production.

Institutions

• University of Arkansas Fayetteville

  AR, Fayetteville

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• University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

  Arkansas, United States

  Grant ID: Undergraduate Summer Research Grant

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