Climate impacts on organisms, ecosystems and human societies: integrating OCLTT into a wider context

HO Pörtner - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Physiological studies contribute to a cause and effect understanding of ecological patterns
under climate change and identify the scope and limits of adaptation. Across most habitats …

Physiological ecology meets climate change

F Bozinovic, HO Pörtner - Ecology and evolution, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we pointed out that understanding the physiology of differential climate change
effects on organisms is one of the many urgent challenges faced in ecology and …

Oxygen-and capacity-limited thermal tolerance: bridging ecology and physiology

HO Pörtner, C Bock, FC Mark - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Observations of climate impacts on ecosystems highlight the need for an understanding of
organismal thermal ranges and their implications at the ecosystem level. Where changes in …

Integrating climate-related stressor effects on marine organisms: unifying principles linking molecule to ecosystem-level changes

HO Pörtner - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2012 - int-res.com
Climate change effects on marine ecosystems involve various stressors, predominantly
temperature, hypoxia and CO 2, all of which may combine with further anthropogenic …

Impacts of climate variability and change on (marine) animals: physiological underpinnings and evolutionary consequences

HO Pörtner, J Gutt - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Understanding thermal ranges and limits of organisms becomes important in light of climate
change and observed effects on ecosystems as reported by the IPCC (2014). Evolutionary …

Physiological mechanisms in coping with climate change

A Fuller, T Dawson, B Helmuth… - Physiological and …, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
Although many studies have modeled the effects of climate change on future species
distributions and extinctions, the theoretical approach most commonly used—climate …

Are we underestimating the ecological and evolutionary effects of warming? Interactions with other environmental drivers may increase species vulnerability to high …

E Litchman, MK Thomas - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Warming, the most prominent aspect of global environmental change, already affects most
ecosystems on Earth. In recent years, biologists have increasingly integrated the effects of …

Can respiratory physiology predict thermal niches?

WCEP Verberk, F Bartolini, DJ Marshall… - Annals of the New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting species responses to global warming is the holy grail of climate change science.
As temperature directly affects physiological rates, it is clear that a mechanistic …

Integrating within-species variation in thermal physiology into climate change ecology

S Bennett, CM Duarte, N Marbà… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Accurately forecasting the response of global biota to warming is a fundamental challenge
for ecology in the Anthropocene. Within-species variation in thermal sensitivity, caused by …

Designing a seasonal acclimation study presents challenges and opportunities

RB Huey, LB Buckley - Integrative Organismal Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Organisms living in seasonal environments often adjust physiological capacities and
sensitivities in response to (or in anticipation of) environment shifts. Such physiological and …