A5014863243- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Research Data Management Practices
- Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Marine animal studies overview
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Biochemical and Structural Characterization
Western Sydney University
2022-2025
The University of Sydney
2020-2022
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2022
The University of Queensland
2015-2020
University of Waikato
2013-2017
Booth University College
2016
City University of Macau
2014
University of Macau
2014
Canadian Standards Association
2014
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2014
Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrates, yet their resilience to rising temperatures remains poorly understood. This is primarily because knowledge of thermal tolerance taxonomically and geographically biased, compromising global climate vulnerability assessments. Here, we employed a novel data imputation approach predict heat 60% amphibian species assessed daily temperature variation in refugia. We found 198 out 5203 currently exposed overheating events shaded terrestrial conditions....
Publishing preprints is quickly becoming commonplace in ecology and evolutionary biology. Preprints can facilitate the rapid sharing of scientific knowledge establishing precedence enabling feedback from research community before peer review. Yet, significant barriers to preprint use exist, including language barriers, a lack understanding about benefits diversity types outputs accepted (e.g. reports). Community-driven initiatives allow come together break down these improve equity coverage...
Abstract Increasing variable hydroperiods may leave ectotherms with complex life cycles more vulnerable to the impacts of environmental drying. While developmental plasticity enable some species escape drying ponds, this might result in trade-offs performance and subsequent fitness adults. Here, we used rice paddy frogs (Fejervarya limnocharis) test how pond influences tadpoles, resulting carryover effects on body size jumping performance. We predicted that tadpoles under simulated drought...
Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrates, yet their resilience to rising temperatures remains poorly understood1,2. This is primarily because knowledge of thermal tolerance taxonomically and geographically biased3, compromising global climate vulnerability assessments. Here we used a phylogenetically informed data-imputation approach predict heat 60% amphibian species assessed daily temperature variations in refugia. We found that 104 out 5,203 (2%) currently exposed overheating events...
Burrowing is an important form of locomotion in reptiles, but no study has examined the energetic cost burrowing for reptiles. This significant since most energetically expensive mode undertaken by animals, and many species therefore show specialisations their subterranean lifestyle. We effect temperature substrate characteristics (coarse sand or fine sand) on net (NCOB) rate two Egernia group skinks (Liopholis striata Liopholis inornata) compared it with those other animals. further tested...
Comparative analyses have a long history of macro-ecological and -evolutionary approaches to understand structure, function, mechanism constraint. As the pace science accelerates, there is ever-increasing access diverse types data open databases that are enabling inspiring new research. Whether conducting species-level trait-based analysis or formal meta-analysis study effect sizes, comparative share common reliance on reliable, carefully curated databases. Unlike many scientific endeavors,...
The many-banded krait, Bungarus multicinctus, has been recorded as the animal resource of JinQianBaiHuaShe in Chinese Pharmacopoeia. Characterization its venoms classified chief phyla modern neurotoxins. However, evolutionary origin and diversification neurotoxins well biosynthesis active compounds remain largely unknown due to lack high-quality genome. Here, we present 1.58 Gbp genome B. multicinctus assembled into 18 chromosomes with contig/scaffold N50 7.53 Mbp/149.8 Mbp. Major...
Sloughing maintains the skins integrity and critical functionality in amphibians. Given behavioural, morphological osmoregulatory changes that accompany sloughing, this process is likely to be physiologically costly. Chytridiomycosis, a cutaneous disease of amphibians caused by fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), disrupts skin function increases sloughing rates. Moreover, mortality rates from chytridiomycosis are significantly higher juveniles so we hypothesised smaller individuals...
Energetic cost of growth determines how much food-derived energy is needed to produce a given amount new biomass and thereby influences transduction between trophic levels. Growth development are regulated by hormones therefore sensitive changes in temperature environmental endocrine disruption. Here, we show that the disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) at an environmentally relevant concentration (10 µgl −1 ) decreased fish ( Danio rerio size 30°C water temperature. Under same conditions, it...
Abstract The progression of infectious disease depends on the intensity and sensitivity to pathogen infection. Understanding commonalities in trait infection across studies through meta‐analytic approaches could provide insight pathogenesis diseases. globally devastating amphibian chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis ( Bd ), offers a good case system due widely available dataset disruption functional traits species. Here, I systematically conducted phylogenetically controlled...
Species exposed to prolonged drying are at risk of population declines or extinctions. A key missing element for assessments climate change is the sensitivity species water loss and their microhabitat preference, ecotype, as both dictate environmental drying. Here, we identified globally where water-sensitive ectotherms, i.e. anurans, increasing aridity drought, examined which ecotypes more sensitive from 238 species, estimated how behavioural activity impacted by future drought warming...
Respirometry is an important tool for understanding whole-animal energy and water balance in relation to the environment. Consequently, growing number of studies using respirometry over last decade warrants reliable reporting data sharing effective dissemination research synthesis. We provide a checklist guideline on five key sections facilitate transparency, reproducibility, replicability studies: 1) materials, set up, plumbing, 2) subject conditions/maintenance, 3) measurement conditions,...
Plastic pollutants are novel environmental stressors that now persistent components of natural ecosystems. Endocrine disrupting chemicals such as bisphenols leach out plastics can modify physiological responses animals by interfering with hormone signalling. Here, we tested whether three commonly produced bisphenols, bisphenol A (BPA), F (BPF) and S (BPS), impair thermal acclimation swimming performance metabolic enzyme [citrate synthase (CS) lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)] activities in adult...
Amphibian skin is a multifunctional organ providing protection from the external environment and facilitating physiological exchange of gases, water salts with environment. In order to maintain these functions, outer layer regularly replaced in process called sloughing. During sloughing, outermost removed its entirety, which has potential interfere permeability ion transport, disrupting homeostasis. this study, we measured, vivo, effects sloughing on cutaneous efflux ions toads Rhinella...
Certain lizards are known to run bipedally. Modelling studies suggest bipedalism in may be a consequence of caudal shift the body centre mass, combined with quick bursts acceleration, causing torque moment at hip lifting front body. However, some appear bipedally sooner and for longer than expected from these models, suggesting positive selection bipedal locomotion. While differences morphology contribute locomotion, changes kinematic variables also extended sequences, such as orientation,...
Abstract Aim Global warming and deforestation are pushing species closer to their physiological limit, especially for with habitat‐restricted life stages because sunlit areas have higher maximum temperatures. Here, we examined the critical thermal (CT max ), environmental water temperature (T ) of larvae from 29 anuran across a latitudinal gradient (22–43° N) test how latitude habitat type (open or closed‐forest ponds) affected tolerance, an index vulnerability climate change. Location...
Respirometry is an important procedure for understanding whole-animal energy and water balance. Consequently, the growing number of studies using respirometry over last decade warrants reliable reporting data sharing effective research synthesis dissemination. We provide a checklist guideline on five key areas to facilitate transparency reproducibly studies: 1) materials, set up, plumbing, 2) subject conditions/maintenance, 3) measurement conditions, 4) processing, 5) statistics, each with...
The floodplains of many large rivers worldwide are important spawning and nursery habitats for multiple fish species. We investigated the potential importance different floodplain larvae. Samples were collected from 14 sites along Waikato River, northern New Zealand, September to October 2010. Larval fishes identified using traditional morphological identification DNA analyses. Our results revealed high densities invasive koi carp goldfish larvae in flooded terrestrial compared other habitat...
Abstract Aim The body size of marine megafauna can influence population dynamics because larger females have disproportionally greater reproductive output. We explored how this scaling relationship affect predictions structure in nesting sea turtles by combining a phylogenetically controlled meta‐analysis with long‐term field survey. Location Global (meta‐analysis) and Malaysia (field survey). Time period Present. Major taxa studied Sea turtles. Methods extracted parameters all turtle...