Allison R. Litmer
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Also affiliated: The Ohio State University (2024–2025); Tennessee Technological University (2019–2020); Ohio Wesleyan University (2024–2025)
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Allison R. Litmer's research investigates the physiological and behavioral responses of lizards to environmental conditions, with a particular focus on thermal sensitivity and its impact on digestion and activity patterns. Her work examines how factors such as meal size, feeding frequency, and ambient temperature influence digestive performance in species like the common wall lizard (*Podarcis muralis*) and the prairie lizard (*Sceloporus consobrinus*). Litmer also studies how nighttime warming and prey availability interact to affect physiology in prairie lizards. Additionally, her research explores broader ecological questions, including latitudinal gradients in sexual dimorphism and the influence of thermal performance, body size, and life history on reproduction and population dynamics under warming scenarios. Her recent publications address knowledge gaps concerning body temperature, food consumption, daily activity, and growth rates in lizards, and investigate the plastic activity patterns and thermoregulation of introduced urban lizard populations.
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- h-index: 4
- Publications: 14
- Citations: 62
Selected Publications
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Nighttime warming and prey availability interact to influence physiology in prairie lizards (<i>Sceloporus consobrinus</i>) (2025)
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Thermal sensitivity of digestion in Sceloporus consobrinus, with comments on geographic variation (2024)
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Cycling temperature treatments affect estimates of digestive performance in prairie lizards (<i>Sceloporus consobrinus</i>) (2024)
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Latitudinal gradients in sexual dimorphism: Alternative hypotheses for variation in male traits (2021)
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Neutrophil: Lymphocyte Ratios as a Measure of Chronic Stress in Populations of the Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) across a Habitat Quality Gradient (2020)
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Critical thermal tolerance of invasion: Comparative niche breadth of two invasive lizards (2019)
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- Cycling temperature treatments affect estimates of digestive performance in prairie lizards (<i>Sceloporus consobrinus</i>)
- Thermal sensitivity of digestion in Sceloporus consobrinus, with comments on geographic variation
- Nighttime warming and prey availability interact to influence physiology in prairie lizards (<i>Sceloporus consobrinus</i>)
- Latitudinal gradients in sexual dimorphism: Alternative hypotheses for variation in male traits
- Latitudinal gradients in sexual dimorphism: Alternative hypotheses for variation in male traits
- Latitudinal gradients in sexual dimorphism: Alternative hypotheses for variation in male traits
- Latitudinal gradients in sexual dimorphism: Alternative hypotheses for variation in male traits
- Nighttime warming and prey availability interact to influence physiology in prairie lizards (<i>Sceloporus consobrinus</i>)
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