One of the fundamental goals in macroecology is to understand the relationship among
species' geographic ranges, ecophysiology, and climate; however, the mechanisms …

Thermoregulation in ectotherms may be modulated by climatic variability across geographic
gradients. Environmental temperature varies along latitudinal clines resulting in …

Populations at the warm range margins of the species distribution may be at the greatest
risks of extinction from global warming unless they can tolerate extreme environmental …

Thermal trait variation is of fundamental importance to forecasting the impacts of
environmental change on lizard diversity. Here, we review the literature for patterns of …

Two competing hypotheses have been suggested to explain thermal sensitivity of lizards to
environmental conditions. These are the static and the labile hypotheses. The static …

Aim Many ectotherms are at risk from climate change as temperatures are increasingly
exceeding their thermal limits. Many evaluations of the vulnerability of ectotherms to climate …

The critical thermal limits of organisms and the thermal sensitivity of their performance tend
to vary predictably across latitudinal gradients. There has been comparatively less …

Ecophysiological plasticity determines, to a great extent, the geographic distribution and the
vulnerability of ectotherms to climate change. We studied the relationship between …

Biological impacts of climate warming are predicted to increase with latitude, paralleling
increases in warming. However, the magnitude of impacts depends not only on the degree …

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 …