A general framework for jointly modelling thermal and hydric constraints on developing eggs

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Result on the web

<a href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210X.14018" target="_blank" >https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210X.14018</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14018" target="_blank" >10.1111/2041-210X.14018</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A general framework for jointly modelling thermal and hydric constraints on developing eggs

Original language description

Eggs are a vulnerable stage because they are sensitive to thermal and hydric conditions and yet cannot behaviourally avoid stressful environments. A general mechanistic model of egg development in natural nests requires microclimatic predictions of temperature, humidity, radiation (if above ground) and water potential (if buried in soil) to be integrated with models of heat and water exchange of the egg and the metabolism of the developmental process. Although all the required pieces for such a model now exist, they have not been integrated into a general modelling framework. We developed such an integration using NicheMapR package for mechanistic niche modelling. Specifically, we took an existing general model of egg water exchange and connected it with the microclimate model in NicheMapR to simulate nest thermal and hydric environments, including the effects of soil water potential on liquid and vapour exchange and moisture-mediated soil thermal conductivity on heat exchange. We then used the Dynamic Energy Budget model within the ectotherm model of NicheMapR as the mechanistic engine for the developmental process, allowing the explicit computation of the dynamics of metabolic heat production and all aspects of mass exchange. We illustrate the modelling framework using existing laboratory and field data on reptiles, insects, and birds. We show that it can capture laboratory observations of water exchange and metabolic heat production and how it can be used to map potential development and water uptake under natural conditions at the continental scale. The modelling framework can be used to interpret laboratory experiments and allows strong inferences to be made about the abiotic constraints on egg development in natural nests under past, present, and future environmental change.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

ISSN

2041-210X

e-ISSN

2041-2096

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

583-595

UT code for WoS article

000879734200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85141498065