Thermal performance across levels of biological organization

EL Rezende, F Bozinovic - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… to life-history attributes, an integrative theory of thermal adaptation must somehow address
how … In this scenario, ‘thermal adaptation’ might constitute an emergent property that varies …

Limited plasticity in thermally tolerant ectotherm populations: evidence for a trade-off

JM Barley, BS Cheng, M Sasaki… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… intraspecific patterns of thermal plasticity. We synthesize the results of 20 empirical
studies that use common garden laboratory experiments to quantify thermal limit acclimation …

Context dependence of local adaptation to abiotic and biotic environments: a quantitative and qualitative synthesis

RD Briscoe Runquist, AJ Gorton… - The American …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
… Using local-foreign contrasts as a metric of local adaptation (or maladaptation), we found
that local adaptation was greater in the presence than in the absence of a biotic interactor, …

Validating measurements of acclimation for climate change adaptation

JS Terblanche, AA Hoffmann - Current opinion in insect science, 2020 - Elsevier
… We summarise assessments of thermal acclimation … adaptation [1,2]. While most discussions
in insects have focussed on acclimation leading to increased adult survival under thermal

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive evolution shapes the present-day distribution of the thermal sensitivity of population growth rate

DG Kontopoulos, TP Smith, TG Barraclough… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… and increase due to adaptation to stable environments. Overall, our results indicate that
adaptation can lead to large and relatively rapid shifts in thermal sensitivity, especially in …

Spatiotemporal variation in thermal niches suggests lability rather than conservatism of thermal physiology along an environmental gradient

AL Gilbert, DB Miles - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Thermal adaptation to local environments may minimize the reduction in thermoregulatory
effectiveness experienced by lizards; therefore, physiological differences should co-evolve …

Integrating within-species variation in thermal physiology into climate change ecology

S Bennett, CM Duarte, N Marbà… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… By contrast, species that have evolved under a narrow thermal range (eg Antarctic ectotherms
[35]) or display high levels of local thermal adaptation (eg due to strong selection gradient, …

Comparing thermal performance curves across traits: how consistent are they?

V Kellermann, SL Chown, MF Schou… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
… Variation in the TPC across traits and time scales suggests that TPCs using single traits
may not be an accurate predictor of fitness and thermal adaptation across environments. …

Physiological acclimation and persistence of ectothermic species under extreme heat events

SA Morley, LS Peck, JM Sunday… - Global Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… We first conducted long-term experiments of thermal limit acclimation focused on marine
polar invertebrates, and then combined these with an extensive range of empirical estimates of …

An intertidal fish shows thermal acclimation despite living in a rapidly fluctuating environment

CRB da Silva, C Riginos, RS Wilson - Journal of Comparative Physiology …, 2019 - Springer
Conceptual illustration on how magnitude of daily thermal fluctuations and seasonal thermal
variations affects thermal performance breadth and capacity for reversible acclimation. a …