Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease

EA Mordecai, JM Caldwell, MK Grossman… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mosquito‐borne diseases cause a major burden of disease worldwide. The vital rates of
these ectothermic vectors and parasites respond strongly and nonlinearly to temperature …

Developmental plasticity in thermal tolerance: Ontogenetic variation, persistence, and future directions

P Pottier, S Burke, RY Zhang, DWA Noble… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the factors affecting thermal tolerance is crucial for predicting the impact
climate change will have on ectotherms. However, the role developmental plasticity plays in …

The temporal dynamics of multiple stressor effects: from individuals to ecosystems

MC Jackson, S Pawar, G Woodward - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
Multiple stressors, such as warming and invasions, often occur together and have
nonadditive effects. Most studies to date assume that stressors operate in perfect synchrony …

[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 …

Physiological mechanisms of acute upper thermal tolerance in fish

R Ern, AH Andreassen, F Jutfelt - Physiology, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
This review is focused on the questions of why fish exhibit heat failure at thermal extremes
and which physiological mechanisms determine the acute upper thermal tolerance. We …

Divergent impacts of warming weather on wildlife disease risk across climates

JM Cohen, EL Sauer, O Santiago, S Spencer, JR Rohr - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Infectious disease outbreaks among wildlife have surged in recent
decades alongside global climate change. However, the circumstances under which climate …

Thermal tolerance patterns across latitude and elevation

J Sunday, JM Bennett, P Calosi… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Linking variation in species' traits to large-scale environmental gradients can lend insight
into the evolutionary processes that have shaped functional diversity and future responses …

Limited plasticity in thermally tolerant ectotherm populations: evidence for a trade-off

JM Barley, BS Cheng, M Sasaki… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many species face extinction risks owing to climate change, and there is an urgent need to
identify which species' populations will be most vulnerable. Plasticity in heat tolerance …

How will mosquitoes adapt to climate warming?

LI Couper, JE Farner, JM Caldwell, ML Childs… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The potential for adaptive evolution to enable species persistence under a changing climate
is one of the most important questions for understanding impacts of future climate change …

Understanding how temperature shifts could impact infectious disease

JR Rohr, JM Cohen - PLoS biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Climate change is expected to have complex effects on infectious diseases, causing some to
increase, others to decrease, and many to shift their distributions. There have been several …