Effects of Body Size and Melanism on the Thermal Biology of Garter Snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis)

By Tonya D. Bittner, R. King, James M. Kerfin. Copeia, 2002

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• The evolution and function of pattern diversity in snakes (2013, background): “…2006; Farallo and Forstner 2012; Isaac and Gregory 2013), aposematism (Campbell and Lamar 1989; Savage and Slowinski 1992; Brodie 1993; Brodie and Janzen 1995; Valkonen et al. 2011), and thermoregulation (Gibson and Falls 1979; Peterson et al. 1993; Lindell and Forsman 1996; Bittner et al. 2002).”
• Thermal melanism in ectotherms (2007, unknown): “Watt, 1968; Willmer and Unwin, 1981; Roland, 1982; Kingsolver, 1987; Turner and Lombard, 1990; Forsman, 1997; Ellers and Boggs, 2004) as well as for a handful of reptile species (Gibson and Falls, 1979; Forsman, 1995a; Bittner et al., 2002; Clusella Trullas, 2006).”
• ADAPTIVE REPTILE COLOR VARIATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE MCIR GENE (2004, background): “Color variation is also known to influence temperature regulation in a variety of ectotherms (Majerus 1998; Bittner et al. 2002).”