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Siembra
On-line version ISSN 2477-8850
Abstract
ALTAMIRANO-BENAVIDES, Marco A. and WOOLRICH-PINA, Guillermo A.. Ecophysiological observations on the body temperatures of the anurans Dendropsophus bifurcus, Rhinella marina, and Scinax ruber from upper basin Amazon in northeastern Ecuador. Siembra [online]. 2023, vol.10, n.2, e4479. ISSN 2477-8850. https://doi.org/10.29166/siembra.v10i2.04479.
Ectothermic inhabitants of tropical forests are subjected to constant environmental temperatures, which determine their passive thermoregulatory strategies. We observe these trends during the summer of 2017, in the anurans Dendropsophus bifurcus, Rhinella marina, and Scinax ruber, in a tropical rainforest from the Upper Amazon Basin of Ecuador. D. bifurcus and S. ruber showed a tendency to tigmothermy, whereas R. marina presented tendencies towards heliothermy. Body temperatures (Tbs) did not differ between D. bifurcus and R. marina, but S. ruber presented a lower Tb. Our results suggest that thermal environment is influencing different thermoregulatory strategies as tigmothermy and heliothermy of frogs and toads distributed in tropical environments at low elevation.
Keywords : Amazon; anurans; field body temperatures; thermoconformers; thermoregulation.