Traits are key for understanding the environmental responses and ecological roles of
organisms. Trait approaches to functional ecology are well established for plants, whereas …

Behavior is one of the major architects of evolution: by behaviorally modifying how they
interact with their environments, organisms can influence natural selection, amplifying it in …

Thermal variability is a key driver of ecological processes, affecting organisms and
populations across multiple temporal scales. Despite the ubiquity of variation, biologists lack …

Experimental studies on the thermal biology of organisms have become crucial to
investigate the impact of climate warming. However, most laboratory studies are carried out …

Understanding links between thermal performance and environmental variation is
necessary to predict organismal responses to climate change, and remains an ongoing …

Predictive models of ectotherm responses to environmental change often rely on thermal
performance data from the literature. For insects, the majority of these data focus on two …

Physiological traits are often used for vulnerability assessments of organismal responses to
climate change. Trait values can change dramatically over the life cycle of organisms but are …

The conversion of forest into grassland can induce differentiation in the functional
morphology of resilient species. To assess this effect, we have chosen a dung beetle …

It remains unclear to what extent yearly weather variation and spatial variation in
microclimate influences the outcome of interacting plant-animal species and whether …

Temperature varies on multiple timescales and ectotherms must adjust to these changes to
survive. These adjustments may lead to energetic trade‐offs between self‐maintenance and …