Thermal variation, thermal extremes and the physiological performance of individuals

WW Dowd, FA King, MW Denny - The Journal of …, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
In this review we consider how small-scale temporal and spatial variation in body
temperature, and biochemical/physiological variation among individuals, affect the …

Variation in the heat shock response and its implication for predicting the effect of global climate change on species' biogeographical distribution ranges and …

L Tomanek - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
The preferential synthesis of heat shock proteins (Hsps) in response to thermal stress [the
heat shock response (HSR)] has been shown to vary in species that occupy different thermal …

Decreased thermal tolerance under recurrent heat stress conditions explains summer mass mortality of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis

L Seuront, KR Nicastro, GI Zardi, E Goberville - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Extreme events such as heat waves have increased in frequency and duration over the last
decades. Under future climate scenarios, these discrete climatic events are expected to …

An integrated, multi‐level analysis of thermal effects on intertidal molluscs for understanding species distribution patterns

Y Dong, M Liao, G Han, GN Somero - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Elucidating the physiological mechanisms that underlie thermal stress and discovering how
species differ in capacities for phenotypic acclimatization and evolutionary adaptation to this …

Spreading the risk: small-scale body temperature variation among intertidal organisms and its implications for species persistence

MW Denny, WW Dowd, L Bilir, KJ Mach - Journal of Experimental Marine …, 2011 - Elsevier
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 …

Geographic variation in temperature tolerance as an indicator of potential population responses to climate change

CJB Sorte, SJ Jones, LP Miller - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology …, 2011 - Elsevier
The temperature tolerances of individuals in geographically separated populations of a
single species can be used as indicators of each population's potential to persist or become …

On the prediction of extreme ecological events

MW Denny, LJH Hunt, LP Miller… - Ecological …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological studies often focus on average effects of environmental factors, but ecological
dynamics may depend as much upon environmental extremes. Ecology would therefore …

Thermal adaptation in the intertidal snail Echinolittorina malaccana contradicts current theory by revealing the crucial roles of resting metabolism

DJ Marshall, Y Dong, CD McQuaid… - Journal of …, 2011 - journals.biologists.com
Contemporary theory for thermal adaptation of ectothermic metazoans focuses on the
maximization of energy gain and performance (locomotion and foraging). Little …

Facing up to climate change: community composition varies with aspect and surface temperature in the rocky intertidal

A Amstutz, LB Firth, JI Spicer, ME Hanley - Marine Environmental Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Marine rocky intertidal organisms are amongst those most affected by climate change with
regional distributional changes observed for many species. Although often ascribed to …

Context-dependent Impacts of a Non-native Ecosystem Engineer, the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas

DK Padilla - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The introduction of non-native species represents unprecedented large-scale experiments
that allow us to examine ecological systems in ways that would otherwise not be possible …