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

Animals and plants often exhibit narrow ranges of thermal preference in variable
environments; fitness-enhancing activities such as reproduction and growth tend to be …

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 …

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 …

Many organisms modify their physiological functions by acclimating to changes in their
environment. Recent studies of thermal physiology have been influenced by verbal models …

Models of thermal adaptation assume that warm-adapted and cold-adapted organisms can
achieve the same fitness, yet recent comparative studies suggest that warm-adapted …

Temperatures are increasing due to global changes, putting biodiversity at risk. Organisms
are faced with a limited set of options to cope with this situation: adapt, disperse or die. We …

Abstract Theory predicts the emergence of generalists in variable environments and
antagonistic pleiotropy to favour specialists in constant environments, but empirical data …

On this episode, we talk with Martha Muñoz, a professor in Yale's Department of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology. We frame the chat in terms of two big ideas in thermal physiology …

Experimental studies on the thermal biology of organisms have become crucial to
investigate the impact of climate warming. However, most laboratory studies are carried out …