A tenet of macroecology is that physiological processes of organisms are linked to large-
scale geographical patterns in environmental conditions. Species at higher latitudes …

Much recent theoretical and empirical work has sought to describe the physiological
mechanisms underlying thermal tolerance in animals. Leading hypotheses can be broadly …

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

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

The thermal biology of ectotherms is often used to infer species' responses to changes in
temperature. It is often proposed that temperate species are more cold-tolerant, less heat …

Although adaptation of Drosophila to thermal extremes has been investigated for many
years, only recently has much progress been made in identifying the genetic and …

Global warming is increasing mean temperatures and altering temperature variability at
multiple temporal scales. To better understand the consequences of changes in thermal …

Recent studies suggest that animals are decreasing in size as a general response to global
warming, for reasons that remain unclear. Here, by analysing ectotherm death time curves …

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 …

Physiological thermal-tolerance limits of terrestrial ectotherms often exceed local air
temperatures, implying a high degree of thermal safety (an excess of warm or cold thermal …