Main conclusion Environmental-friendly techniques based on plant stress memory, cross-
stress tolerance, and seed priming help sustainable agriculture by mitigating negative …

Insect performance is limited by the temperature of the environment, and in temperate, polar,
and alpine regions, the majority of insects must face the challenge of exposure to low …

The acute thermal tolerance of ectotherms has been measured in a variety of ways; these
include assays where organisms are shifted abruptly to stressful temperatures and assays …

Temperature profoundly influences physiological responses in animals, primarily due to the
effects on biochemical reaction rates. Since physiological responses are often exemplified …

Temperature has dramatic evolutionary fitness consequences and is therefore a major factor
determining the geographic distribution and abundance of ectotherms. However, the role …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the modern ecological and evolutionary contexts
of the evolutionary physiology in insects and provides a survey of sources of environmental …

Climatic factors influence the distribution of ectotherms, raising the possibility that
distributions of many species will shift rapidly under climate change and/or that species will …

The distribution of insects can often be related to variation in their response to thermal
extremes, which in turn may reflect differences in plastic responses or innate variation in …

To elucidate the mechanisms of thermal adaptation and acclimation in ectothermic aquatic
organisms from differing climates, we used a common‐garden experiment for thermal stress …

Among-population variation in insect thermal performance is important for understanding
patterns and mechanisms of evolution and predicting insect responses to altered climate …