Putting physiology on a landscape scale
Principal Investigators:
Warren P. Porter
In the summer of 2001 I will be making first principles calculations of how specific species use specific landscapes to maximize their potential for survival, growth, and reproduction. I will be testing these predictions against experimental data available on these specific species from my collaborators, Dr. John Sabo, Dr. Leah Gerber, and Dr. Eric Seabloom, postdoctoral fellows at NCEAS. I will make the calculations using my new
high-resolution, spatially explicit combination of our microclimate, ectotherm, and endotherm biophysical/energetics/physiology/behavior... more
In the summer of 2001 I will be making first principles calculations of how specific species use specific landscapes to maximize their potential for survival, growth, and reproduction. I will be testing these predictions against experimental data available on these specific species from my collaborators, Dr. John Sabo, Dr. Leah Gerber, and Dr. Eric Seabloom, postdoctoral fellows at NCEAS. I will make the calculations using my new
high-resolution, spatially explicit combination of our microclimate, ectotherm, and endotherm biophysical/energetics/physiology/behavior models. They now predict landscape scale habitat utilization and distribution for specific ectotherm and endotherm species. These
predictions will be based in part on topographic data from digital elevation maps that include latitude, longitude, elevation, slope, and aspect at 30 m by 30 m resolution. Climate data from specific reference locations will be applied to each quadrat using adiabatic principles to
estimate temperature differences with elevation. Locally available microclimates in each quadrat will be used to drive animal energetics/behavior animal models. Results will be displayed in GIS format using ArcView. Optimal landscape locations that maximize activity time, discretionary energy for growth or reproduction, and minimal activity time
and costs for maintenance metabolic rates and water loss rates can be identified on specific quadrangles where empirical test data are available. The work on lizards will be on the genus Sceloporus in collaboration with Dr. John Sabo. Predictions of activity time, food and water requirements and growth and reproductive potential of dusky footed woodrats on the Los Olivos quadrangle will be done in collaboration with Drs. Leah Gerber and Eric Seabloom, who have collected experimental data on these animals.
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Participants and Meetings
Activity | Dates | Further Information |
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Sabbatical Fellow | 1st July—30th September 2001 | Participant List |
Participant Contact Information
Warren P. Porter | wpporter@wisc.edu | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Products: Publications, Reports, Datasets, Presentations, Visualizations
Type | Products of NCEAS Research |
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Journal Article | Fort, Jerome; Porter, Warren P.; Grémillet, David. 2009. Thermodynamic modelling predicts energetic bottleneck for seabirds wintering in the northwest Atlantic. Journal of Experimental Biology. Vol: 212. Pages 2483-2490. (Online version) |
Journal Article | Fort, Jerome; Porter, Warren P.; Grémillet, David. 2011. Energetic modelling: A comparison of the different approaches used in seabirds. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A . Vol: 158(3)358-365. (Online version) |
Journal Article | Göktepe, Özge; Hundt, P.; Porter, Warren P.; Pereira, Don. 2012. Comparing bioenergetics models of double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) fish consumption. Waterbirds. Vol: 35(1). Pages 91-102. (Online version) |
Journal Article | Kearney, Michael R.; Phillips, Ben L.; Tracy, Christopher R.; Betts, Gregory; Porter, Warren P. 2008. Modelling species distributions without using species distributions: The cane toad in Australia under current and future climates. Ecography. Vol: 31(4). Pages 423-434. (Online version) |
Journal Article | Kearney, Michael R.; Porter, Warren P.; Williams, Craig; Ritchie, Scott; Hoffmann, A. 2009. Integrating biophysical models and evolutionary theory to predict climatic impacts on speciesâ ranges: The dengue mosquito Aedes aegypti in Australia. Functional Ecology. Vol: 23. Pages 528-538. (Online version) |
Journal Article | Kearney, Michael R.; Porter, Warren P. 2009. Mechanistic niche modelling: Combining physiological and spatial data to predict species' ranges. Ecology Letters. Vol: 12. (Online version) |
Journal Article | Kearney, Michael R.; Shine, Richard; Porter, Warren P. 2009. The potential for behavioral thermoregulation to buffer ââcold-bloodedââ animals against climate warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol: 106(10). Pages 3835-3840. (Online version) |
Journal Article | Kearney, Michael R.; Briscoe, Natalie J.; Karoly, David J.; Porter, Warren P.; Norgate, Melanie; Sunnucks, Paul. 2010. Early emergence in a butterfly causally linked to anthropogenic warming. Biology Letters. Vol: 6(5). Pages 674-677. (Online version) |
Journal Article | Maurer, Brian A.; Brown, James H.; Dayan, Tamar; Enquist, Brian J.; Ernest, S. K. Morgan; Hadly, Elizabeth A.; Haskell, John P.; Jablonski, David; Jones, Kate E.; Kaufman, Dawn; Lyons, Kathleen; Niklas, Karl J.; Porter, Warren P.; Roy, Kaustuv; Smith, Felisa A.; Tiffney, Bruce; Willig, Michael R. 2004. Similarities in body size distributions of small-bodied flying vertebrates. Evolutionary Ecology Research. Vol: 6. Pages 783-797. (Online version) |
Book Chapter | Meadows, S.; Porter, Warren P.; Craven, S. 2008. Spatially explicit models estimate metabolic requirement and depredation of economically valuable and destructive fish species by double-crested cormorants (phalacrocorax auritus) in Southern Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. Edited by Morris, S.; Vosloo, A. Molecules to migration: The pressures of life (4th CPB Meeting in Africa). Medimond Publishing Co.. Bologna, Italy. Pages 627-640. |
Journal Article | Meadows, S.; Porter, Warren P.; Craven, S. 2009. Modeling the organochlorine contaminant intake of cormorants. Waterbirds. |
Journal Article | Mitchell, Nicola J.; Kearney, Michael R.; Nelson, N. J.; Porter, Warren P. 2008. Predicting the fate of a living fossil: How will global warming affect sex determination and hatching phenology in tuatara?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. Vol: 275. Pages 2185â2193. (Online version) |
Journal Article | Natori, Yoji; Porter, Warren P. 2007. Model of Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus) energetics predicts distribution on Honshu, Japan. Ecological Applications. Vol: 17(5). Pages 1441-1459. (Online version) |
Journal Article | Porter, Warren P.; Sabo, John L.; Tracy, Christopher R.; Reichman, Omar J.; Ramankutty, Navin. 2002. Physiology on a landscape scale: Plant-animal interactions. Integrative and comparative biology. Vol: 42(3). Pages 431-453. (Abstract) |
Journal Article | Porter, Warren P.; Vakharia, N. P.; Klousie, W. D.; Duffy, David. 2006. Poâouli landscape bioinformatics models predict energetics, behavior, diets, and distribution on Maui. Integrative and Comparative Biology. Vol: 46. Pages 1143-1158. (Online version) |
Data Set | Porter, Warren P.; Ramakutty, Navin; Sabo, John L.; Tracy, Christopher R.; Reichman, Omar J. 2007. Physiology and landscape. (Abstract) (Online version) |
Journal Article | Porter, Warren P.; Kearney, Michael R. 2009. Size, shape, and the thermal niche of endotherms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol: 106 Suppl.2. Pages 19666â19672. (Online version) |
"Putting physiology on a landscape scale" is project ID: 4500