What can plasticity contribute to insect responses to climate change?

CM Sgrò, JS Terblanche… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Plastic responses figure prominently in discussions on insect adaptation to climate change.
Here we review the different types of plastic responses and whether they contribute much to …

Upper thermal limits in terrestrial ectotherms: how constrained are they?

AA Hoffmann, SL Chown… - Functional Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial ectotherms are likely to face increased periods of heat stress as mean
temperatures and temperature variability increase over the next few decades. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analysis reveals weak but pervasive plasticity in insect thermal limits

H Weaving, JS Terblanche, P Pottier… - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Extreme temperature events are increasing in frequency and intensity due to climate
change. Such events threaten insects, including pollinators, pests and disease vectors …

Towards an integrated framework for assessing the vulnerability of species to climate change

SE Williams, LP Shoo, JL Isaac, AA Hoffmann… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Towards an Integrated Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Species to Climate Change
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Terrestrial insects and climate change: adaptive responses in key traits

V Kellermann, B van Heerwaarden - Physiological Entomology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding and predicting how adaptation will contribute to species' resilience to climate
change will be paramount to successfully managing biodiversity for conservation …

Ecologically relevant measures of tolerance to potentially lethal temperatures

JS Terblanche, AA Hoffmann… - Journal of …, 2011 - journals.biologists.com
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 …

Adapting to climate change: a perspective from evolutionary physiology

SL Chown, AA Hoffmann, TN Kristensen… - Climate research, 2010 - int-res.com
Much attention has been given to forecasting the likely effects of ongoing climate change on
biodiversity. A large and often contentious literature has developed about how changes in …

Insect thermal tolerance: what is the role of ontogeny, ageing and senescence?

K Bowler, JS Terblanche - Biological Reviews, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Temperature has dramatic evolutionary fitness consequences and is therefore a major factor
determining the geographic distribution and abundance of ectotherms. However, the role …

Detecting genetic responses to environmental change

AA Hoffmann, Y Willi - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2008 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in environmental conditions can rapidly shift allele frequencies in
populations of species with relatively short generation times. Frequency shifts might be …

[图书][B] Insect conservation: a handbook of approaches and methods

MJ Samways, MA McGeoch, TR New - 2010 - books.google.com
With up to a quarter of all insect species heading towards extinction over the next few
decades, there is now a pressing need to summarize the techniques available for measuring …