Journal article
Thermal time constant estimation in warming and cooling ectotherms
Journal of thermal biology, v 26(3)
2001
PMID: 11240230
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Abstract
(1) Measurement of physiological control of warming and cooling in reptiles requires calculating the thermal time constant (
τ) of the animal. (2) Previously reported methods of estimating
τ are sensitive to multiple problems including measurement error in operative environmental temperature and equilibrium body temperature, drift of environmental temperatures, requirements for extremely simple thermal environments, and ill conditioning of the estimation techniques themselves. (3) We propose a physiologically based heat transfer model which is less sensitive to common experimental errors, more numerically robust, and can provide physiologically meaningful estimates of time constants. (4) The method presented here allows time constants to be measured for animals subjected to the traditional step change experiment as well as to shorter periods of warming and cooling such as during shuttling.
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- Title
- Thermal time constant estimation in warming and cooling ectotherms
- Creators
- Edward M. Dzialowski - Drexel UniversityMichael P. O’Connor
- Publication Details
- Journal of thermal biology, v 26(3)
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science (BEES)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000168710100011
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0035041596
- Other Identifier
- 991019168968704721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Biology
- Zoology