How useful are thermal vulnerability indices?

S Clusella-Trullas, RA Garcia, JS Terblanche… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
To forecast climate change impacts across habitats or taxa, thermal vulnerability indices (eg,
safety margins and warming tolerances) are growing in popularity. Here, we present their …

Validating measurements of acclimation for climate change adaptation

JS Terblanche, AA Hoffmann - Current opinion in insect science, 2020 - Elsevier
Acclimation and other forms of plasticity that can increase stress resistance feature strongly
in discussions surrounding climate change impacts or vulnerability projections of insects …

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 …

Asymmetry of thermal sensitivity and the thermal risk of climate change

LB Buckley, RB Huey… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Understanding and predicting the biological consequences of climate change requires
considering the thermal sensitivity of organisms relative to environmental temperatures. One …

Acclimation capacity of critical thermal maximum varies among populations: Consequences for estimates of vulnerability

AS Cicchino, AA Shah, BR Forester, JB Dunham… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptive plasticity in thermal tolerance traits may buffer organisms against changing
temperatures, making such responses of particular interest in the face of global climate …

Multi‐scale relationships in thermal limits within and between two cold‐water frog species uncover different trends in physiological vulnerability

AS Cicchino, AA Shah, BR Forester… - Freshwater …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Critical thermal limits represent an important component of an organism's capacity to cope
with future temperature changes. Understanding the drivers of variation in these traits may …

A macroecological approach to evolutionary rescue and adaptation to climate change

JAF Diniz‐Filho, KS Souza, LM Bini, R Loyola… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the widespread use of ecological niche models (ENMs) for predicting the responses
of species to climate change, these models do not explicitly incorporate any population …

Heat tolerance is more variable than cold tolerance across species of Iberian lizards after controlling for intraspecific variation

S Herrando‐Pérez, C Monasterio… - Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The widespread observation that heat tolerance is less variable than cold tolerance ('cold‐
tolerance asymmetry') leads to the prediction that species exposed to temperatures near …

Map** physiology: biophysical mechanisms define scales of climate change impacts

F Choi, T Gouhier, F Lima, G Rilov… - Conservation …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The rocky intertidal zone is a highly dynamic and thermally variable ecosystem, where the
combined influences of solar radiation, air temperature and topography can lead to …

The effect of thermal microenvironment in upper thermal tolerance plasticity in tropical tadpoles. Implications for vulnerability to climate warming

JL Turriago, M Tejedo, JM Hoyos… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Current climate change is generating accelerated increase in extreme heat events and
organismal plastic adjustments in upper thermal tolerances,(critical thermal maximum …