Embryonic Thermal Tolerance Shapes the Vulnerability of lizards to Climate Change

Abstract

Photo 1. A female northern grass lizard Takydromus septentrionalis from the high-latitude population basking at Kunyushan Mountain, Yantai, China. The photo was taken during lizard collection. Photo credit: Bao-jun Sun. Photo 2. A male northern grass lizard T. septentrionalis from the high-latitude population basking at Kunyushan Mountain, Yantai, China. Photo credit: Bao-jun Sun. Photo 3. A juvenile northern grass lizard T. septentrionalis from the high-latitude population searching for food at Kunyushan Mountain, Yantai, China. Photo credit: Bao-jun Sun. These photographs illustrate the article “Latitudinal embryonic thermal tolerance and plasticity shape the vulnerability of oviparous species to climate change” by Bao-jun Sun, Liang Ma, Yang Wang, Chun-rong Mi, Lauren B. Buckley, Ofir Levy, Hong-liang Lu and Wei-guo Du, published in Ecological Monographs. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1468.