Danilo Giacometti

This study uses a meta-analysis to show that climatic variability influences behavioural fever in amphibians and reptiles, with stronger responses in thermally variable environments and bacterial infections.

This study shows that spotted salamanders adjust their behavior to maintain a constant evaporation rate across different temperatures, highlighting a temperature-compensating hydroregulation mechanism.

The study examines whether horns of Megasoma gyas beetles actively dissipate heat, finding they do not, and identifies regional heterothermy as a result of both active and passive processes.

The paper documents blue-spotted salamanders migrating at sub-zero temperatures without freezing, suggesting they remain supercooled and active during migration.

The paper measures thermal preferences of eastern garter snakes in different habitats and finds they prefer mixed canopy cover despite lower thermal quality to avoid overheating.

This study shows that Spotted Salamanders actively thermoregulate seasonally despite being fossorial, with higher thermoregulatory targets and thermophilic behaviors in the active season.