Thermal performance curves enable physiological constraints to be incorporated in
predictions of biological responses to shifts in mean temperature. But do thermal …

Global warming is increasing the overheating risk for many organisms, though the potential
for plasticity in thermal tolerance to mitigate this risk is largely unknown. In part, this …

Climate warming may lower environmental resource levels, growth, and fitness of many
ectotherms. In a classic experiment, Brett and colleagues documented that growth rates of …

The topics assessed in this chapter were last assessed by the IPCC in 2007, principally in
WGII AR4 Chapters 3 (Kundzewicz et al., 2007) and 4 (Fischlin et al., 2007), but also in WGII …

Urbanization is an increasingly important dimension of global change, and urban areas
likely impose significant natural selection on the species that reside within them. Although …

Understanding how quickly physiological traits evolve is a topic of great interest, particularly
in the context of how organisms can adapt in response to climate warming. Adjustment to …

Tropical ectotherms are thought to be especially vulnerable to climate change because they
are adapted to relatively stable temperature regimes, such that even small increases in …

Climate change is resulting in a radical transformation of the thermal quality of habitats
across the globe. Whereas species have altered their distributions to cope with changing …

Temperature increases can impact biodiversity and predicting their effects is one of the main
challenges facing global climate-change research. Ectotherms are sensitive to temperature …

Plasticity is a near‐ubiquitous feature of the thermal physiology of ectothermic organisms.
Understanding the significance of plasticity in evolutionary and ecological contexts requires …