Mechanistic forecasts of species responses to climate change: the promise of biophysical ecology

NJ Briscoe, SD Morris, PD Mathewson… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A core challenge in global change biology is to predict how species will respond to future
environmental change and to manage these responses. To make such predictions and …

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 …

Survive a warming climate: insect responses to extreme high temperatures

CS Ma, G Ma, S Pincebourde - Annual Review of Entomology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Global change includes a substantial increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme high
temperatures (EHTs), which influence insects at almost all levels. The number of studies …

The effects of temperature on aerobic metabolism: towards a mechanistic understanding of the responses of ectotherms to a changing environment

PM Schulte - The Journal of experimental biology, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
Because of its profound effects on the rates of biological processes such as aerobic
metabolism, environmental temperature plays an important role in sha** the distribution …

Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: roles of behaviour, physiology and adaptation

RB Huey, MR Kearney… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A recently developed integrative framework proposes that the vulnerability of a species to
environmental change depends on the species' exposure and sensitivity to environmental …

Predicting changes in the distribution and abundance of species under environmental change

J Ehrlén, WF Morris - Ecology letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental changes are expected to alter both the distribution and the abundance of
organisms. A disproportionate amount of past work has focused on distribution only, either …

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

JL Gardner, A Peters, MR Kearney, L Joseph… - Trends in ecology & …, 2011 - cell.com
A recently documented correlate of anthropogenic climate change involves reductions in
body size, the nature and scale of the pattern leading to suggestions of a third universal …

Global analysis of thermal tolerance and latitude in ectotherms

JM Sunday, AE Bates, NK Dulvy - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A tenet of macroecology is that physiological processes of organisms are linked to large-
scale geographical patterns in environmental conditions. Species at higher latitudes …

Climate change hotspots in the CMIP5 global climate model ensemble

NS Diffenbaugh, F Giorgi - Climatic change, 2012 - Springer
We use a statistical metric of multi-dimensional climate change to quantify the emergence of
global climate change hotspots in the CMIP5 climate model ensemble. Our hotspot metric …

Thermal performance curves, phenotypic plasticity, and the time scales of temperature exposure

PM Schulte, TM Healy… - … and comparative biology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Thermal performance curves (TPCs) describe the effects of temperature on biological rate
processes. Here, we use examples from our work on common killifish (Fundulus …