Temperature profoundly impacts both the phenotypes and distributions of organisms. These
thermal effects exert strong selective pressures on behaviour, physiology and life history …

Predicting the response of the biota to global change remains a formidable endeavor.
Zooplankton face challenges related to global warming, ocean acidification, the proliferation …

Patterns of phenotypic change across environmental gradients (eg, latitude, altitude) have
long captivated the interest of evolutionary ecologists. The pattern and magnitude of …

Most water and essential soil nutrient uptake is carried out by fine roots in plants. It is
therefore important to understand the global geographic patterns of fine-root nitrogen and …

Much of the recent discussion concerning the form and underlying mechanistic basis of
metabolic rate–temperature and development rate–temperature relationships has been …

Understanding the evolution of reaction norms remains a major challenge in ecology and
evolution. Investigating evolutionary divergence in reaction norm shapes between …

Determining how species' geographic ranges are governed by current climates and how
they will respond to rapid climatic change poses a major biological challenge. Geographic …

Hotter is better is a hypothesis of thermal adaptation that posits that the rate-depressing
effects of low temperature on biochemical reactions cannot be overcome by physiological …

Although temperature variation is known to cause large-scale adaptive divergence, its
potential role as a selective factor over microgeographic scales is less well-understood …

Increasing seawater temperatures are expected to have profound consequences for reef-
building corals' physiology. Understanding how demography changes in response to …