thermoconform

present singular third person thermoconforms · participle present thermoconforming · participle past thermoconformed · past thermoconformed

1. intransitiveTo adopt the surrounding temperature

   First, a reptile that thermoconforms while active (slope = 1) may still achieve a low variance in body temperature by restricting its activity to times and habitats with suitable microenvironments.

   1982, Carl Gans, F. Harvey Pough, Biology of the reptilia, volume 12

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   They must either thermoconform to their environment, if their environmental temperature is relatively constant or if they can tolerate fluctuations in T_b, or use behavioral regulatory mechanisms to maintain a T_b that is somewhat independent of environmental temperature.

   2014, Encyclopedia of Ecology, →OCLC, page 189