Extreme temperatures can injure or kill organisms and can drive evolutionary patterns. Many
indices of extremes have been proposed, but few attempts have been made to establish …

Climate change is putting the fate of ectothermic animals at stake because their body
temperature closely tracks environmental temperatures. The ability to adjust thermal limits …

Average and extreme temperatures will increase in the near future, but how such shifts will
affect mortality in natural populations is still unclear. We used a dynamic model to predict …

Thermal tolerance is a critical determinant of ectotherm distribution, which is likely to be
influenced by future climate change. To predict such distributional changes, simple and …

Increases in average temperature and the frequency of extreme temperature events are
likely to pose a major risk to species already close to their upper physiological thermal limits …

Global warming is affecting the Antarctic continent in complex ways. Because Antarctic
organisms are specialized to living in the cold, they are vulnerable to increasing …

A quantitative understanding of physiological thermal responses is vital for forecasting
species distributional shifts in response to climate change. Many studies have focused on …

Ectotherms can respond to global warming via evolutionary change of their upper thermal
limits (CTmax). Thus, the estimation of CTmax and its evolutionary potential is crucial to …

Understanding how species adapt to different temperatures is crucial to predict their
response to global warming, and thermal performance curves (TPCs) have been employed …

The gut microbiota can contribute to host physiology leading to an increase of resistance to
abiotic stress conditions. For instance, temperature has profound effects on ectotherms, and …