The acute thermal tolerance of ectotherms has been measured in a variety of ways; these
include assays where organisms are shifted abruptly to stressful temperatures and assays …

Increases in average temperature and the frequency of extreme temperature events are
likely to pose a major risk to species already close to their upper physiological thermal limits …

Proper assessment of environmental resistance of animals is critical for the ability of
researchers to understand how variation in environmental conditions influence population …

Global climate change poses one of the greatest threats to biodiversity. Most analyses of the
potential biological impacts have focused on changes in mean temperature, but changes in …

Current studies indicate that estimates of thermal tolerance limits in ectotherms depend on
the experimental protocol used, with slower and presumably more ecologically relevant …

Temperature tolerance is critical for defining the fundamental niche of ectotherms and
researchers classically use either static (exposure to a constant temperature) or dynamic …

How thermal tolerance estimated in the laboratory can be extrapolated to natural settings
remains a contentious subject. Here, we argue that the general premise that a single …

Summary 1 Biologists have long been concerned with measuring thermal performance
curves and limits because of their significance to fitness. Basic experimental design may …

Thermal performance curves enable physiological constraints to be incorporated in
predictions of biological responses to shifts in mean temperature. But do thermal …

Thermal tolerance is a key factor limiting insect distributions, but there is limited information
on the ability of species to evolve different thermal limits. Recent studies indicate that the …