THERMAL ECOLOGY OF BLACK RAT SNAKES (ELAPHE OBSOLETA) IN A THERMALLY CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENT

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Thermal quality influences habitat selection at multiple spatial scales in milksnakes (2006, background): “In the thermally challenging environment of our study area, open habitats and edges have environmental temperatures that deviate less from Tset (Blouin-Demers & Weatherhead, 2001b; Row & Blouin-Demers, 2006b), and these habitats offer characteristics that benefit thermoregulation (increased solar ra”
Biotelemetry: a mechanistic approach to ecology. (2004, background): “Ecologists have also utilized thermally sensitive transmitters to determine that thermoregulatory behaviour of black rat snakes, Elaphe obsoleta, in a challenging northern climate contradicts conventional cost-benefit thermoregulation models that predict that ectotherms should stop thermoregulating ”
Habitat-specific behavioural thermoregulation by black rat snakes (Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta) (2002, methodology): “Blouin-Demers and Weatherhead (2001b) recommended that de−db be used instead of E, which we do here.”
An experimental test of the link between foraging, habitat selection and thermoregulation in black rat snakes Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta (2001, methodology): “For example, in a 4- year telemetry study (Blouin-Demers & Weatherhead 2001a), black rat snakes were visible on only 30% of 3715 occasions that they were located.”