Today's scientists are facing the enormous challenge of predicting how climate change will
affect species distributions and species assemblages. To do so, ecologists are widely using …

Understanding and predicting how adaptation will contribute to species' resilience to climate
change will be paramount to successfully managing biodiversity for conservation …

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

We examined latitudinal variation in adult and larval heat tolerance in Drosophila
melanogaster from eastern Australia. Adults were assessed using static and ramping …

Background Geographic variation in the thermal environment impacts a broad range of
biochemical and physiological processes and can be a major selective force leading to local …

Larval nutrition may affect a range of different life history traits as well as responses to
environmental stress in adult insects. Here we test whether raising larvae of fruit flies …

Altitudinal gradients offer valuable study systems to investigate how adaptive genetic
diversity is distributed within and between natural populations and which factors promote or …

Variable thermal environments experienced by most organisms warrant mechanisms to
adjust the expression of phenotypic values to environmental needs. Here we explored short …

Living in seasonally changing environments requires adaptation to seasonal cycles. Many
insects use the change in day length as a reliable cue for upcoming winter and respond to …

Montane environments around the globe are biodiversity 'hotspots' and important reservoirs
of genetic diversity. Montane species are also typically more vulnerable to environmental …