Increasing climate variability may pose an even greater risk to species than climate warming
because temperature fluctuations can amplify adverse impacts of directional warming on …

Laboratory studies of insects suggest that female fecundity may increase very rapidly with
adult size and that mass may often increase close to exponentially with time during larval …

The heat shock response is a critical mechanism by which organisms buffer effects of
variable and unpredictable environmental temperatures. Upregulation of heat shock …

The flexibility afforded to genotypes in different environments by phenotypic plasticity is of
interest to biologists studying thermal adaptation because of the thermal lability of many …

Climate change and rising global temperatures pose a serious threat to biodiversity. We
assessed the vulnerability to global warming of four genera of iguanian lizards whose …

Background: Evolutionary interpretations of life-history as well as physiological patterns
require distinction between genotypic variations and environmentally induced phenotypic …

The thermal performance curve is an ecological concept relating the phenotype of
organisms and temperature. It requires characterization of the leaf temperature for foliar …

Global, unpredictable temperature increases have strong effects on all organisms,
especially insects. Elucidating the effects of short-term temperature increases on midgut …

Climate change alters many environmental parameters with strong consequences for
ecological interactions, from species interactions to community dynamics. Temperature is …

Abstract Development of ectotherms is highly temperature dependent. Studies using
variable thermal environments can improve ecological relevance of data because …