Under review/Submitted
- Giacometti, D.; Montes, L.F.; Denommé, M.; Andrade, D.V.; & Tattersall G.J. Handle with care: the thermal consequences of short-term handling in mole salamanders. Journal of Thermal Biology.
- 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.
- 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. The impact of artificial selection on disease tolerance: insights into amphibian immune responses and Bd supershedding. Journal for Nature Conservation.
2026
13. Lima, W.S.; Giacometti, D.; Schaeffer, P.J.; & Carvalho, J.E. 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 Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.70040
2025
13. Kumbhani, H.A.W.; Abney, C.R.; Giacometti, D.; & Tattersall, G.J. Operative temperatures of eastern garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) reveal a Goldilocks effect for habitat use. Canadian Journal of Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2025-0090
12. Giacometti, D.; Moldowan, P.D.; & Tattersall, G.J. Sub-zero temperatures during early spring migration in Blue-spotted salamanders (Ambystoma laterale). Canadian Journal of Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2025-0045
11. Giacometti, D.; Palaoro, A.V.; & Tattersall, G.J. Exaggeration through sexual selection may impact the thermal biology of arthropods. Integrative and Comparative Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaf023
10. Giacometti, D.; & Tattersall, G.J. Behavioural evidence of a humidistat: a temperature-compensating mechanism of hydroregulation in spotted salamanders. Journal of Experimental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.250297
9. Giacometti, D.; & Tattersall, G.J. Seasonal plasticity in the thermal sensitivity of metabolism but not water loss in a fossorial ectotherm. Oecologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05711-6
8. Giacometti, D.; Silva, L.H.L; Gomes, G.; Carvalho, J.E.; & Palaoro, A.V. Regional heterothermy in Megasoma gyas is not related to active heat dissipation by the horns. Insect Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.70018
2024
7. Giacometti, D.; Moldowan, P.D.; & Tattersall, G.J. (2024). Ups and downs of fossorial life: migration restlessness and geotaxis may explain overwintering emergence in the Spotted Salamander. Journal of Experimental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249319
6. Giacometti, D.; & Tattersall, G.J. Seasonal variation of behavioural thermoregulation in the Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum). Royal Society Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240537
2023
5. Giacometti, D.; Palaoro, A.V.; Leal, L.C.; & Barros, F.C. (2023). How seasonality influences the thermal biology of lizards with different thermoregulatory traits: a meta-analysis. Biological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13028
4. Giacometti, D.; & Tattersall, G.J. (2023). Putting the energetic-savings hypothesis underground: fossoriality does not affect metabolic rates in amphibians. Evolutionary Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-023-10253-5
2022
3. Giacometti, D.; Bars-Closel, M.; Kohlsdorf, T.; 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2656
2021
2. Giacometti, D.; Yagi, K.; 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. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2021-0135
2019
1. 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-019-00687-4