Physiological limits determine susceptibility to environmental changes, and can be
assessed at the individual, population or species/lineage levels. Here I discuss these levels …

The interdisciplinary fields of conservation physiology, macrophysiology, and mechanistic
ecological forecasting have recently emerged as means of integrating detailed physiological …

Microclimatic variables are necessary for a wide range of pure and applied problems in
environmental science. In ecology, microclimatic conditions are prerequisites for modelling …

Well‐documented changes in species abundances and distributions coinciding with global
warming have been increasing during recent years. A trend of raising sea‐surface …

Temperature is among the main structuring agents on rocky intertidal shores. Although
infrequent mortality events associated with high temperatures have been observed in …

The intertidal zone of wave-swept rocky shores is a potentially useful system in which to
monitor, experimentally manipulate, and possibly forecast the ecological consequences of …

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

Limpets of the genus Lottia occupy a broad vertical distribution on wave-exposed rocky
shores, a range that encompasses gradients in the frequency and severity of thermal and …

Ecological studies often focus on average effects of environmental factors, but ecological
dynamics may depend as much upon environmental extremes. Ecology would therefore …

The present study examined the relative magnitudes of local-scale versus large-scale
latitudinal patterns of intertidal body temperatures, using data loggers mimicking limpets …