Thermal Tolerance Limits and Recovery Temperatures for Four Anolis Lizard Species

Four interrelated thermal physiological traits were measured in four Anolis lizard species. The data, authored by Elizabeth Hoffman and published on figshare in May 2026, likely contains body temperatures for the loss and recovery of righting response and complete movement ability. This 18.2 KB Excel file provides a framework for assessing ectotherm vulnerability in variable thermal environments.

Use Cases

• Modeling species vulnerability based on thermal tolerance and recovery traits mentioned in the description
• Comparing critical thermal minima (CTmin) and cold immobilization thresholds across lizard species
• Analyzing the hysteresis between cooling-induced loss and warming-induced recovery of motor function

Strengths

• Measures four interrelated thermal traits within the same study, a noted gap in vertebrate research.
• Data is openly available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Elizabeth Hoffman via figshare

Collection Method

Experimental measurement of lizard thermal physiological traits.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 20:59:07; freshness should be verified.