Mechanistic forecasts of species responses to climate change: the promise of biophysical ecology

NJ Briscoe, SD Morris, PD Mathewson… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A core challenge in global change biology is to predict how species will respond to future
environmental change and to manage these responses. To make such predictions and …

An integrated, multi‐level analysis of thermal effects on intertidal molluscs for understanding species distribution patterns

Y Dong, M Liao, G Han, GN Somero - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Elucidating the physiological mechanisms that underlie thermal stress and discovering how
species differ in capacities for phenotypic acclimatization and evolutionary adaptation to this …

The challenge of novel abiotic conditions for species undergoing climate‐induced range shifts

AR Spence, MW Tingley - Ecography, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coincident with recent global warming, species have shifted their geographic distributions to
cooler environments, generally by moving along thermal axes to higher latitudes, higher …

Physiological determinants of biogeography: the importance of metabolic depression to heat tolerance

M Liao, G Li, J Wang, DJ Marshall, TY Hui… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A quantitative understanding of physiological thermal responses is vital for forecasting
species distributional shifts in response to climate change. Many studies have focused on …

Roles of multi-level temperature-adaptive responses and microhabitat variation in establishing distributions of intertidal species

YW Dong - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
How intertidal species survive their harsh environment and how best to evaluate and
forecast range shifts in species distribution are two important and closely related questions …

Drones provide spatial and volumetric data to deliver new insights into microclimate modelling

JP Duffy, K Anderson, D Fawcett, RJ Curtis… - Landscape …, 2021 - Springer
Context Microclimate (fine-scale temperature variability within metres of Earth's surface) is
highly influential on terrestrial organisms' ability to survive and function. Understanding how …

Cyclic thermal fluctuations can be burden or relief for an ectotherm depending on fluctuations' average and amplitude

J Vajedsamiei, F Melzner, M Raatz… - Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting the implications of ongoing ocean climate warming demands a better
understanding of how short‐term thermal variability impacts marine ectotherms, particularly …

Microhabitat temperature variation combines with physiological variation to enhance thermal resilience of the intertidal mussel Mytilisepta virgata

X Li, Y Tan, Y Sun, J Wang, Y Dong - Functional Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting the effects of rising temperature entails measuring both habitat thermal
characteristics and the physiological variation of the species as it relates to this microhabitat …

The impacts of thermal heterogeneity across microhabitats on post-settlement selection of intertidal mussels

Y Tan, YX Sun, YJ Zhu, ML Liao, YW Dong - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Rapid genetic selection is critical for allowing natural populations to adapt to different
thermal environments such as those that occur across intertidal microhabitats with high …

Microhabitat thermal environment controls community structure of macrobenthos on coastal infrastructures

YX Sun, XX Li, Y Tan, J Wang, YW Dong - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2022 - Elsevier
The proliferation of coastal infrastructure in the context of coastal development, urbanization,
and global change is inevitably related to the transformation of coastal community structure …