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

Life-history traits or “fitness components”—such as age and size at maturity, fecundity and
fertility, age-specific rates of survival, and life span—are the major phenotypic determinants …

Phenotypic plasticity, the property by which living organisms express different phenotypes
depending on environmental conditions, can impact their response to environmental …

Highlights•Acclimation capacity is critically important for thermal tolerance of
insects.•Thermal acclimation is unlikely to rescue species currently challenged by global …

Thermal performance curves (TPCs) are intended to approximate the relationship between
temperature and fitness, and are commonly integrated into species distributional models for …

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

Highlights•Phenotypic plasticity can influence the rate of evolution of insects.•The rate of
evolution will depend on how plasticity alters the strength of selection.•The response to …

The integration of life-history, behavioural and physiological traits into a 'pace-of-life
syndrome'is a powerful concept in understanding trait variation in nature. Yet, mechanisms …

At low temperature many insects lose extracellular ion homeostasis and the capacity to
mitigate homeostatic imbalance determines their cold tolerance. Extracellular homeostasis …

The past 2 decades have seen fruit flies being widely adopted for research on social
behavior and aggression. This fruitful research, however, has not been well tied to fruit flies' …