This review serves as an introduction to a special issue of Frontiers in Physiology, focused
on the importance of physiological performance curves across phylogenetic and functional …

Increasing seawater temperatures are expected to have profound consequences for reef-
building corals' physiology. Understanding how demography changes in response to …

The widespread agricultural and industrial emissions of copper-based chemicals have
increased copper levels in soils worldwide. Copper contamination can cause a range of …

Body size is a key component of individual fitness and an important factor in the structure
and functioning of populations and ecosystems. Disentangling the effects of environmental …

Spatial covariance between genotypic and environmental influences on phenotypes
(CovGE) can result in the nonrandom distribution of genotypes across environmental …

Adaptation of soil microbes due to warming from climate change has been observed, but it
remains unknown what microbial growth traits are adaptive to warming. We studied bacterial …

Integrating thermal physiology with environmental temperature is essential to understanding
distributions of species and vulnerability to climate change. Warming tolerance–the …

Thermal performance curves (TPCs) provide a powerful framework to assess the evolution
of thermal sensitivity in populations exposed to divergent selection regimes across latitude …

As global temperatures warm, species must adapt to a changing climate or transition to a
different location suitable for their survival. Understanding the extent to which species are …

Local adaptation of populations results from an interplay between their environment and
genetics. If functional trait variation influences plant performance, populations can adapt to …