Pauline C. Dufour, Toby P. N. Tsang, Susana Clusella-Trullas, Timothy C. Bonebrake. 
No consistent effect of daytime versus night-time measurement of thermal tolerance in nocturnal and diurnal lizards. 
Conservation Physiology

1. Title of Dataset: No consistent effect of daytime versus night-time measurement of thermal tolerance in nocturnal and diurnal lizards. 

2. Author Information

Pauline C. Dufour
Area of Ecology & Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
pdufour@connect.hku.hk 

Toby P. N. Tsang
Area of Ecology & Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
paknok@connect.hku.hk

Susana Clusella-Trullas
Department of Botany and Zoology
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
sct333@sun.ac.za

Timothy C. Bonebrake
Area of Ecology & Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
tbone@hku.hk

Date of data collection:
2018-SEPT to 2019-NOV

Geographic location of data collection:
Hong Kong and South Africa

Funding sources:
Hong Kong Research Grant Council General Research Fund [17152316] 

File list:
dufour_dielviariation_thermaltolerance_lizards.csv 

File description:
dufour_dielviariation_thermaltolerance_lizards.csv contains thermal tolerance data measured for lizards in Hong Kong and South Africa. "Ind" identifies the individual number. "Location" notes where the experiment took palce. "Site" idntifies where the lizards originated. "Family" "Genus" and "Species" indicates the taxonomic information of each individual. "SVL" is the snout-vent length. "Mass" and "total_length" are the measured weights and lengths of the individual. "Sex" indicates whether the individual was identified as male, female or juvenile. "Period" is when the thermal tolerance measurement was taken, day or night. "Ctmin" is the critical thermal minimum and "Ctmax" is the critical thermal maximum. "No_Ctmin" and "No_Ctmax" indicate the points in the sequence for which the measurement (Ctmin and Ctmax respectively) was taken. "Hour_Ctmin" and "Hour_Ctmax" notes the hour in which the measurments were taken. "Activity" is the known activity pattern of the species, dirunal, nocturnal or cathemeral.     

