Thermal ecology of the South American leaf-toed gecko Phyllodactylus gerrhopygus (Wiegmann, 1834) (Gekkota, Phyllodactylidae) in northern Chile

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2025-09

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Taucare‐Ríos, Andrés, Leiva, Dyana, Mendez-Yovera, Jheremy, Reyes-Olivares, Claudio

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Pensoft Publishers

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https://doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.38.e162512

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desert climate, ectotherms, lizards, micro-habitat, thermoregulation

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Taucare‐Ríos, Andrés; Leiva, Dyana; Mendez-Yovera, Jheremy; Reyes-Olivares, Claudio (2025). Thermal ecology of the South American leaf-toed gecko Phyllodactylus gerrhopygus (Wiegmann, 1834) (Gekkota, Phyllodactylidae) in northern Chile. Herpetozoa, 38(38), 245-252. https://doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.38.e162512

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Body temperature is fundamental for the ecology of ectotherms due to its direct effect on their fitness. The thermoregulation of small reptiles involves a regulatory process that depends on morphophys...

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