A central question in ecology has been that of why animal home ranges scale more steeply with body size than do metabolic rates. Yet, the generality of this notion has scarcely been tested in non‐model species like ectotherms, which have lower metabolic requirements than endotherms and which may, therefore, have different home range area requirements. Our aim was to examine how home range area scales with body size in snakes and to shed light on how other factors may shape home range area requirements in an understudied group of ectotherms.

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蛇的家庭温度变化的外温和宏观生态学

生态学中的一个中心问题是，为什么动物的居所范围随身体尺寸的变化比代谢率更陡峭。但是，这种概念的普遍性几乎没有在非模型物种（例如外热）中进行过测试，这些物种的代谢要求比吸热低，因此可能具有不同的家庭区域要求。我们的目的是研究蛇的居家区域面积如何随人体大小缩放，并阐明其他因素如何影响未充分研究的一组放热线对居家区域面积的需求。