Climate change is resulting in a radical transformation of the thermal quality of habitats
across the globe. Whereas species have altered their distributions to cope with changing …

Ectothermic species are particularly sensitive to changes in temperature and may adapt to
changes in thermal environments through evolutionary shifts in thermal physiology or …

A major challenge in ecology and evolution is to disentangle the mechanisms driving broad-
scale variation in biological traits such as body size, colour, thermal physiology traits and …

Body temperature influences the performance and fitness of ectotherms. How thermal
sensitivity responds to selection for resistance to high temperature is broadly relevant in …

Understanding how quickly physiological traits evolve is a topic of great interest, particularly
in the context of how organisms can adapt in response to climate warming. Adjustment to …

The widespread observation that heat tolerance is less variable than cold tolerance ('cold‐
tolerance asymmetry') leads to the prediction that species exposed to temperatures near …

Temperature variation throughout a species range can be extensive and exert divergent
spatiotemporal patterns of selection. The estimation of phenotypic differences of populations …

Tropical ectotherms are thought to be especially vulnerable to climate change because they
are adapted to relatively stable temperature regimes, such that even small increases in …

Species may exhibit similar thermal tolerances via either common ancestry or environmental
filtering and local adaptation, if the species inhabit similar environments. We ask whether …

During the last quarter of a century, the evolution of the thermal sensitivity of performance in
ectotherms has become a major focus of research programs in evolutionary physiology …