R Perez, S Aron - Biological Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal stress is a major driver of population declines and extinctions. Shifts in thermal regimes create new environmental conditions, leading to trait adaptation, population …
A McAfee, A Chapman, H Higo, R Underwood… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
All species need to reproduce to maintain viable populations, but heat stress kills sperm cells across the animal kingdom and rising frequencies of heat waves are a threat to …
Analyses of heat tolerance in insects often suggest that this trait is relatively invariant, leading to the use of fixed thermal maxima in models predicting future distribution of species …
JD Burdine, KE McCluney - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Predicting how species will respond to climate change and land use modification is essential for conserving organisms and maintaining ecosystem services. Thermal tolerances …
Critical thermal limits (CTLs) constrain the performance of organisms, shaping their abundance, current distributions, and future distributions. Consequently, CTLs may also …
How species respond to temperature change depends in large part on their physiology. Physiological traits, such as critical thermal limits (CT max and CT min), provide estimates of …
Researchers and practitioners are increasingly using comparative assessments of critical thermal and physiological limits to assess the relative vulnerability of ectothermic species to …
Critical thermal limits form an increasing component of the estimation of impacts of global change on ectotherms. Whether any consistent patterns exist in the interactive effects of …
The trait-based approach to ecology promises greater generality in our understanding of how species assemblages are structured. The value of this approach depends on linking …