A mechanistic understanding of the response of metabolic rate to temperature is essential
for understanding thermal ecology and metabolic adaptation. Although the Arrhenius …

Thermal performance curves have been widely used to model the ecological responses of
ectotherms to variable thermal environments and climate change. Such models ignore the …

Adaptive thermal plasticity allows organisms to adjust their physiology to cope with
fluctuating environments. However, thermal plasticity is rarely studied in response to thermal …

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 …

Ectotherms are considered to be particularly vulnerable to climate warming. Descriptions of
habitat temperatures and predicted changes in climate usually consider mean monthly …

A major goal of community ecology is to link biological processes at lower scales with
community patterns. Microbial communities are especially powerful model systems for …

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 …

Rapid evolutionary adaptation has the potential to rescue from extinction populations
experiencing environmental changes. Little is known, however, about the impact of short …

Understanding the biological impacts of extreme temperatures requires translating
meteorological estimates into organismal responses, but that translation is complex. In …

Temperature has dramatic evolutionary fitness consequences and is therefore a major factor
determining the geographic distribution and abundance of ectotherms. However, the role …