Plasticity in thermal tolerance has limited potential to buffer ectotherms from global warming

AR Gunderson, JH Stillman - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… However, we do find an association between plasticity in upper thermal tolerance and
plasticity in lower thermal tolerance. This indicates that these traits may evolve in a correlated …

… metabolic performance, thermal tolerance, and plasticity enables for more accurate predictions on species vulnerability to acute and chronic effects of global warming

S Magozzi, P Calosi - Global change biology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
global warming requires a comprehensive, mechanistic understanding of sublethal and lethal
thermal tolerances… traits of either acute or chronic tolerance in isolation. Here we propose …

Thermal tolerance of Mediterranean marine macrophytes: Vulnerability to global warming

I Savva, S Bennett, G Roca, G Jordà… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The Mediterranean Sea is warming at three times the rate of the global ocean raising concerns
about the vulnerability of marine organisms to climate change. Macrophytes play a key …

Thermal tolerance, acclimatory capacity and vulnerability to global climate change

P Calosi, DT Bilton, JI Spicer - Biology letters, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… most at risk from continued global warming, simply on the basis of their thermal physiology.
In this context, if we also consider the effects of increased warming on habitat availability in …

Thermal tolerance and the global redistribution of animals

JM Sunday, AE Bates, NK Dulvy - Nature Climate Change, 2012 - nature.com
… ’ thermal tolerance limits, … a global scale. We first test how latitudinal range limits match
expectations on the basis of environmental temperature extremes and species’ thermal tolerances

Positive genetic covariance and limited thermal tolerance constrain tropical insect responses to global warming

C García‐Robledo, CS Baer - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… potentially constraining thermal adaptation to global warming in … current global warming
trajectory would be devastating for tropical insects. However, if humans can limit or slow warming

Lower thermal tolerance in nocturnal than in diurnal ants: a challenge for nocturnal ectotherms facing global warming

C GARCIA‐ROBLEDO, H Chuquillanqui… - Ecological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… A question that arises from our results is whether nocturnal insects are particularly threatened
by global warming. Thermal safety margins of tropical ectotherms are in general very close …

An alternative explanation for global trends in thermal tolerance

NL Payne, JA Smith - Ecology Letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… whether global trends in ectotherm thermal tolerance could ultimately be caused by the
temperature dependence of biological rates rather than by adaptation of species to global trends …

Thermal tolerance in the amphipod Sunamphitoe parmerong from a global warming hotspot, acclimatory carryover effects within generation

H Campbell, J Ledet, AGB Poore, M Byrne - Marine Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
… We investigated the potential for phenotypic plasticity in thermal tolerance through … lifetime
we used the term thermal acclimation. We also contrasted the thermal tolerance of acclimated …

Thermal tolerance and preference of exploited turbinid snails near their range limit in a global warming hotspot

RA Lah, K Benkendorff, D Bucher - Journal of Thermal Biology, 2017 - Elsevier
… This study has provided the first data on the thermal tolerance of subtropical Turbinidae in
a global warming hotspot. These findings suggest that increasing ocean temperature is not …