All climate change scenarios predict an increase in both global temperature means and the
magnitude of seasonal and diel temperature variation. The nonlinear relationship between …

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

Two seemingly opposite evolutionary patterns of clinal variation in body size and associated
life history traits exist in nature. According to Bergmann's rule, body size increases with …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the modern ecological and evolutionary contexts
of the evolutionary physiology in insects and provides a survey of sources of environmental …

Global warming may affect the future pattern of many arthropod-borne diseases, yet the
relationship between temperature and development has been poorly described for many …

Physiological limits determine susceptibility to environmental changes, and can be
assessed at the individual, population or species/lineage levels. Here I discuss these levels …

Climatic factors influence the distribution of ectotherms, raising the possibility that
distributions of many species will shift rapidly under climate change and/or that species will …

Environmental temperature strongly affects physiology of ectotherms. Small ectotherms, like
Drosophila, cannot endogenously regulate body temperature so must rely on behavior to …

While insect cold tolerance has been well studied, the vast majority of work has focused on
the effects of a single cold exposure. However, many abiotic environmental stresses …

1. According to their geographical distribution, most Drosophila species may be classified as
either temperate or tropical, and this pattern is assumed to reflect differences in their …