The Scientific researchers show temperature explains much of the geographic variation in lifespan within species
Temperature explains much of why cold-blooded organisms such as fish, amphibians, crustaceans, and lizards live longer at higher latitudes than at lower latitudes, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) online.
It is found that for a diverse range of species whose body temperatures vary with the temperature of their surroundings, ambient temperature is the dominant factor controlling geographic variation of lifespan within species.
Metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) predicts.
The MTE is a modeling framework that has been used to explain the way in which life history, population dynamics, geographic patterns, and other ecological processes scale with an animal's body size and temperature.
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