1. Metabolic sensitivity to environmental temperature change increases in positive
exponential relation with initial acclimated rates of energy expenditure, and is influenced by …

Metabolic cold adaptation is a pattern where ectotherms from cold, high-latitude, or-altitude
habitats have higher metabolic rates than ectotherms from warmer habitats. When found …

Metabolic rates are linked to key life-history traits that are thought to set the pace of life and
affect fitness, yet the role that parents may have in shaping the metabolism of their offspring …

Background The impact of environmental gradients on the evolution of life history traits is a
central issue in macroecology and evolutionary biology. A number of hypotheses have been …

Only model organisms live in a world of endless summer. Fitness at temperate latitudes
reflects the ability of organisms in nature to exploit the favorable season, to mitigate the …

Increasing temperatures under climate change are thought to affect individual physiology of
fish and other ectotherms through increases in metabolic demands, leading to changes in …

The temperature‐size rule (TSR) is a widespread phenomenon, which describes the
phenotypic plastic response of species' size to temperature: individuals reared at colder …

We describe a mechanistic individual-based model of how global macroclimatic constraints
affect the energy budgets of ectothermic animals. The model uses macroclimatic and …

We offer the thesis that environmental physiologists and evolutionary biologists can find
fertile common ground in the study of how individual variation in physiological phenotypes …

Thermal performance curves are an example of continuous reaction norm curves of common
shape. Three modes of variation in these curves—vertical shift, horizontal shift, and …