Temperature drives performance and therefore adaptation; to interpret and understand
these, thermal performance curves (TPC) are used, often through meta‐analyses, revealing …

Aim Predictions of future species distributions rest on the assumption that climatic conditions
in the current range reflect fundamental niche requirements. So far, it remains unclear to …

Microbes are key drivers of global biogeochemical cycles, and their functional roles arey
dependent on temperature. Large population sizes and rapid turnover rates mean that the …

Thermal traits are frequently used to explain variation in species distributions, abundance,
and sensitivity to climate change. Due to their utility and ease of measurement, critical …

For over a century, the hypothesis of temperature compensation, the maintenance of similar
biological rates in species from different thermal environments, has remained controversial …

Temperatures are increasing due to global changes, putting biodiversity at risk. Organisms
are faced with a limited set of options to cope with this situation: adapt, disperse or die. We …

Many species face extinction risks owing to climate change, and there is an urgent need to
identify which species' populations will be most vulnerable. Plasticity in heat tolerance …

Within‐individual plasticity (acclimation) counteracts potentially negative physiological
effects resulting from environmental changes and thereby maintains fitness across a broad …

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 …

Despite decades of research on the evolution of thermal physiology, at least one
fundamental issue remains unresolved: whether the maximal performance of a genotype …