Mitochondria and the thermal limits of ectotherms

DJ Chung, PM Schulte - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Temperature is a critical abiotic factor shaping the distribution and abundance of species,
but the mechanisms that underpin organismal thermal limits remain poorly understood. One …

rTPC and nls.multstart: A new pipeline to fit thermal performance curves in r

D Padfield, H O'Sullivan, S Pawar - Methods in Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying thermal performance curves (TPCs) for biological rates has many applications to
important problems such as predicting responses of biological systems—from individuals to …

Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature

ST Michaletz, JC Garen - Ecology Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Rate‐temperature scaling relationships have fascinated biologists for nearly two centuries
and are increasingly important in our era of global climate change. These relationships are …

Gas exchange analysers exhibit large measurement error driven by internal thermal gradients

JC Garen, HA Branch, I Borrego, B Blonder… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Portable gas exchange analysers provide critical data for understanding plant‐atmosphere
carbon and water fluxes, and for parameterising Earth system models that forecast climate …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal responses of Tetradesmus obliquus for industrial outdoor cultivation

H Kato, H Suzuki, RH Wijffels, PSC Schulze… - Bioresource Technology …, 2024 - Elsevier
In microalgae cultivation systems, fluctuating temperatures impact growth rates and biomass
quality, whilst extremes of temperature can lead to the loss of large-scale cultures …

Fast Assimilation‐Temperature Response: a FAsTeR method for measuring the temperature dependence of leaf‐level photosynthesis

JC Garen, ST Michaletz - New Phytologist, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Summary We present the Fast Assimilation‐Temperature Response (FAsTeR) method, a
new method for measuring plant assimilation‐temperature (AT) response that reduces …

Phytoplankton thermal responses adapt in the absence of hard thermodynamic constraints

DG Kontopoulos, E van Sebille, M Lange… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
To better predict how populations and communities respond to climatic temperature
variation, it is necessary to understand how the shape of the response of fitness-related …

Thermal sensitivity of black corals (Antipatharia: Hexacorallia): Comparisons between sympatric species from a thermally fluctuating site in Madagascar and between …

M Godefroid, M Vandendriessche… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigated factors shaping the thermal sensitivity in antipatharians, a taxon
whose members form dense aggregations in all oceans, harbouring a high biodiversity …

Adaptive evolution shapes the present-day distribution of the thermal sensitivity of population growth rate

DG Kontopoulos, TP Smith, TG Barraclough… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Developing a thorough understanding of how ectotherm physiology adapts to different
thermal environments is of crucial importance, especially in the face of global climate …

No universal mathematical model for thermal performance curves across traits and taxonomic groups

DG Kontopoulos, A Sentis, M Daufresne… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In ectotherms, the performance of physiological, ecological and life-history traits universally
increases with temperature to a maximum before decreasing again. Identifying the most …