Paper Assignments for Plummer (2005)

Updated 27 October 2005

Read the listed papers by the dates indicated. Clink on the PDF link to download printable document files.

· 4 Oct. - No papers for this date; lecture only

· 11 Oct. – Feeding and Digestion; Energetics

1. del Rio, C.M., J. E. Schondube, T.J. McWhorter, and L.G. Herrera. 2001. Intake responses in nectar feeding birds: digestive and metabolic causes, osmoregulatory consequences, and coevolutionary effects. American Zoologist 41:902–915. PDF

· 18 Oct. – Energetics; Temperature Effects

1. Secor, S. M. and J. Diamond. 1995. Adaptive responses to feeding in burmese pythons: pay before pumping. Journal of Experimental Biology 198:1313-1325. PDF

· 25 Oct. - No papers for this date; lecture only

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Lopez-Calleja, M. V., M. Soto-Gamboa, and E. L. Rezende. 2000. The role of gastrolites on feeding behavior and digestive efficiency in the rufous-colored sparrow. The Condor 102:465–469. (.pdf)

Jiang, Z., S. Takatsuki, J. Li, W. Wang, J. Ma, and Z. Gao. 2002. Feeding type and seasonal digestive strategy of Mongolian gazelles in China. Journal of Mammalogy 83:91–98. (.pdf)

Lighton, J. R. B., P. H. Brownell, B. Joos, and R. J. Turner. 2001. Low metabolic rate in scorpions: implications for population biomass and cannibalism. Journal of Experimental Biology 204:607-613. (.pdf)

Robert, K. A., and M. B. Thompson. 2000. Influence of feeding on the metabolic rate of the lizard, Eulamprus tympanum. Copeia 2000:851–855. (.pdf)

Nagy, K. A., and S. D. Bradshaw. 2000. Scaling of energy and water fluxes in free-living arid-zone Australian marsupials. Journal of Mammalogy 81:962–970. (.pdf)

Strange, K. T., J. C. Vokoun, and D. B. Noltie. 2002. Thermal tolerance and growth differences in orangethroat darter (Etheostoma spectabile) from thermally contrasting adjoining streams. American Midland Naturalist 148:120–128. (.pdf)

Ovadia, O., B. Pinshow, and A. Lotem. 2002. Thermal imaging of house sparrow nestlings: the effect of begging behavior and nestling rank. The Condor 104:837–842. (.pdf)

Campbell, K. L. and P. W. Hochachka. 2000. Thermal biology and metabolism of the American shrew-mole, Neurotrichus gibbsii. Journal of Mammalogy 81:578–585. (.pdf)

Chaplin, S. B., M. L. Cervenka, and A. C. Mickelson. 2002. Thermal environment of the nest during development of tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) chicks. The Auk 119:845–851. (.pdf)

Karasov, W.H. and J.M. Diamond. 1988. Interplay between physiology and ecology in digestion. BioScience 38:602-611.

Place, A.R. and E.W. Stiles. 1992. Living off the wax of the land: bayberries and yellow-rumped warblers. Auk 109:334-345.

Full, R.J. 1986. Locomotion without lungs: energetics and performance of a lungless salamander. American Journal of Physiology 251:775-780.

Bennett, A.F. 1980. The metabolic foundations of vertebrate behavior. Bioscience 30:452-456.

Packard, G.C. and M.J. Packard. 2001. The overwintering strategy of hatchling painted turtles, or how to survive in the cold without freezing. Bioscience 51:199-207.

Christian, K., B. Green, and R. Kennett. 1996. Some physiological consequences of estivation by freshwater crocodiles, Crocodylus johnstoni. Journal of Herpetology 30:1-9.

Grant, B.W. 1990. Trade-offs in activity time and physiological performance for thermoregulating desert lizards, Sceloporus merriami. Ecology 71:2323-2333.

Lillywhite, H.B. 1970. Behavioral thermoregulation in the bullfrog. Copeia 1970:158-168.

Autumn, K., R.B. Weinstein, and R.J. Full. 1994. Low cost of locomotion increases performance at low temperature in a nocturnal lizard. Physiological Zoology 67:238-262.

Mautz, W.J. and K.A. Nagy. 1987. Ontogenetic changes in diet, field metabolic rate, and water flux in the herbivorous lizard Dipsosaurus dorsalis. Physiological Zoology 60:640-658.

Paladino, F.V. M.P. O’Connor, and J.R. Spotila. 1990. Metabolism of leatherback turtles, gigantothermy, and thermoregulation of dinosaurs. Nature 344:858.

Ruben, J.A., W.J. Hillenius, N.R. Geist, A. Leitch, T.D. Jones, P.J. Currie, J.R. Horner, and G. Espe. 1996. The metabolic status of some Late Cretaceous dinosaurs. Science 273:1204-1207.

Spotila, J.R., M.P. O’Conner, et al. 1991. Hot and cold running dinosaurs: body size, metabolism, and migration. Modern Geology 16:302-327.