For years, scientists have known that global warming will effect cold-blooded creatures. However, rising temperatures have now led to scientists investigating just how, and how much, hotter global climates will effect these creatures. Many cold blooded creatures, such as lizards, are highly sensitive to temperature changes, no matter how slight, and these changes can effect their feeding, breeding habits, and movements. Of course, a changing habitat will also be a factor in these amphibian's successes, and their habitats are quickly being lost or destroyed. "For example, our analyses show that the physiological performance of A. cristatellus in dry habitats will decrease by about 25% under future warming, but that their activity budgets will decrease by 50%. Furthermore, the habitat will become much less suitable for reproductive behaviors, which are of course critically important for populations to avoid extinction,” says Manuel Leal, an associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Missouri. New watches have been placed on these possibly endangered amphibians to monitor their numbers and the environments in which they live.
http://biology.missouri.edu/news/new-framework-sheds-light-on-how-not-if-climate-change-affects-cold-blooded-animals/