Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

  1. Ribeiro, L.P.; Becerra-Soria, C.O.; Gómez, A.G.; Giacometti, D.; Salla, R.F.; Avila, A.S.O.; Ramírez, D.R.; Toledo, L.F.; & Parra-Olea, G. Farming-associated variation in chytrid infection and shedding dynamics in invasive American bullfrogs. Hydrobiologia. DOI

  2. Giacometti, D.; Montes, L.F.; Denommé, M.; Andrade, D.V.; & Tattersall, G.J. (2026). Handle with care: the thermal consequences of short-term handling in mole salamanders. Journal of Thermal Biology. DOI

  3. Lima, W.S.; Giacometti, D.; Schaeffer, P.J.; & Carvalho, J. E. (2026). Closer to the heart: cardiac muscle aerobic capacity explains the intraspecific variation in locomotor performance in the neotropical lizard Tropidurus catalanensis. Journal of Experimental Zoology A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology. DOI

  4. Kumbhani, H.A.W.; Abney, C.R.; Giacometti, D.; & Tattersall, G.J. (2025). Operative temperatures of eastern garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) reveal a Goldilocks effect for habitat use. Canadian Journal of Zoology. DOI

  5. Giacometti, D.; Moldowan, P.D.; & Tattersall, G.J. (2025). Sub-zero temperatures during early spring migration in Blue-spotted salamanders (Ambystoma laterale). Canadian Journal of Zoology. DOI

  6. Giacometti, D.; Tattersall, G.J.; & Palaoro, A.V. (2025). Exaggeration through sexual selection may impact the thermal biology of arthropods. Integrative and Comparative Biology. DOI

  7. Giacometti, D.; & Tattersall, G. J. (2025). Behavioural evidence of a humidistat: a temperature-compensating mechanism of hydroregulation in spotted salamanders. Journal of Experimental Biology. DOI

  8. Giacometti, D.; & Tattersall, G. J. (2025). Seasonal plasticity in the thermal sensitivity of metabolism but not water loss in a fossorial ectotherm. Oecologia. DOI

  9. Giacometti, D.; Silva, L. H. L.; Gomes, G.; Carvalho, J. E.; & Palaoro, A. V. (2025). Regional heterothermy in Megasoma gyas is not related to active heat dissipation by the horns. Insect Science. DOI

  10. Giacometti, D.; Moldowan, P.D.; & Tattersall, G. J. (2024). Ups and down of fossorial life: migration restlessness and geotaxis may explain overwintering emergence in the spotted salamander. Journal of Experimental Biology. DOI

  11. Giacometti, D.; & Tattersall, G. J. (2024). Seasonal variation of behavioural thermoregulation in a fossorial salamander (Ambystoma maculatum). Royal Society Open Science. DOI

  12. Giacometti, D.; Palaoro, A. V.; Leal, L. C.; & Barros, F. C. (2024). How seasonality influences the thermal biology of lizards with different thermoregulatory strategies: a meta-analysis. Biological Reviews. DOI

  13. Giacometti, D.; & Tattersall, G. J. (2023). Putting the energetic-savings hypothesis underground: fossoriality does not affect metabolic rates in amphibians. Evolutionary Ecology. DOI

  14. Giacometti, D.; Bars‐Closel, M.; Kohlsdorf, T.; de Carvalho, J. E.; & Barros, F. C. (2022). Environmental temperature predicts resting metabolic rates in tropidurinae lizards. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology. DOI

  15. Giacometti, D.; Yagi, K. T.; Abney, C. R.; Jung, M. P.; & Tattersall, G. J. (2021). Staying warm is not always the norm: behavioural differences in thermoregulation of two snake species. Canadian Journal of Zoology. DOI

  16. Cesar, C. S.; Giacometti, D.; Costa-Leonardo, A. M.; & Casarin, F. E. (2019). Drywood pest termite Cryptotermes brevis (Blattaria: Isoptera: Kalotermitidae): a detailed morphological study of pseudergates. Neotropical Entomology. DOI

Book chapters

  1. Ribeiro, L.P.; Giacometti, D.; Boeing, G.A.N.S.; Serrano, J.A.; Ruggeri, J.; Carvalho, J.E.; Salla, R.F.; Brasileiro, C.A.
    Mudanças climáticas e sanidade de anfíbios: impactos e desafios para a ranicultura. Book chapter. Associação Brasileira de Patologias de Organismos Aquáticos. BOOK

Under review / submitted / preprints

  • Giacometti, D.; Servino, L.M.; Cabanzo-Olarte, L.C.; Bícego, K.C.; & Navas, C.A. When cold-bloods heat up: meta-analytical evidence that climatic variability mediates behavioural fever in amphibians and reptiles. Global Change Biology. DOI

  • Diaz-Ricaurte, J.C.; Giacometti, D.; Montes, L.F.; Bícego, K.C.; de Carvalho, J.E.; Andrade, D.O. Strengthening methodological rigour in conservation ecophysiology: improving transparency, reproducibility, and inference. Conservation Physiology.