Understanding the factors affecting thermal tolerance is crucial for predicting the impact
climate change will have on ectotherms. However, the role developmental plasticity plays in …

As a class of vertebrates, amphibians, are at greater risk for declines or extinctions than any
other vertebrate group, including birds and mammals. There are many threats, including …

Thermal variability is a key driver of ecological processes, affecting organisms and
populations across multiple temporal scales. Despite the ubiquity of variation, biologists lack …

Environmental challenges early in development can result in complex phenotypic trade-offs
and long-term effects on individual physiology, performance and behavior, with implications …

Simple Summary Programs to conserve biphasic amphibians may fail if threats at different
life stages are not addressed. Anthropogenic threats, such as altered hydroperiods and …

Plasticity in the critical thermal maximum (CT max) helps ectotherms survive in variable
thermal conditions. Yet, little is known about the environmental mechanisms modulating its …

The effects of climate change are often body size dependent. One contributing factor could
be size-dependent thermal tolerance (SDTT), the propensity for heat and cold tolerance to …

Critical thermal limits (CTmax and CTmin) decrease with elevation, with greater change in
CTmin, and the risk to suffer heat and cold stress increasing at the gradient ends. A central …

Plasticity in heat tolerance provides ectotherms the ability to reduce overheating risk during
thermal extremes. However, the tolerance–plasticity trade‐off hypothesis states that …

Realistic predictions about the impacts of climate change onbiodiversity requires gathering
ecophysiological data and the critical thermal maxima (CTMax) is the most frequently used …