Ant thermal tolerance: a review of methods, hypotheses, and sources of variation

KA Roeder, DV Roeder, J Bujan - Annals of the Entomological …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are a conspicuous group of ectotherms whose
behavior, distribution, physiology, and fitness are regulated by temperature. Consequently …

Adaptations to thermal stress in social insects: recent advances and future directions

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 …

Vulnerability of honey bee queens to heat-induced loss of fertility

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 …

Seasonal plasticity of thermal tolerance in ants

J Bujan, KA Roeder, SP Yanoviak, M Kaspari - 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Differential sensitivity of bees to urbanization-driven changes in body temperature and water content

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 in ants and their implications under climate change

G Nascimento, T Câmara, X Arnan - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Critical thermal limits (CTLs) constrain the performance of organisms, shaping their
abundance, current distributions, and future distributions. Consequently, CTLs may also …

Beyond thermal limits: comprehensive metrics of performance identify key axes of thermal adaptation in ants

CA Penick, SE Diamond, NJ Sanders… - Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Comparative studies of critical physiological limits and vulnerability to environmental extremes in small ectotherms: how much environmental control is needed?

AA Hoffmann, CM Sgro - Integrative Zoology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Researchers and practitioners are increasingly using comparative assessments of critical
thermal and physiological limits to assess the relative vulnerability of ectothermic species to …

Interactions between rates of temperature change and acclimation affect latitudinal patterns of warming tolerance

JL Allen, SL Chown, C Janion-Scheepers… - Conservation …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
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 …

A cross-species test of the function of cuticular traits in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

JT Buxton, KA Robert, AT Marshall, TL Dutka… - Myrmecological …, 2021 - biotaxa.org
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 …