Thermal tolerance and the global redistribution of animals

By Jennifer M. Sunday, A. E. Bates, N. Dulvy. 2012

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Using a comprehensive data set of thermal tolerance limits, latitudinal range boundaries and latitudinal range shifts of cold-blooded animals, this study explores the likely consequences of climate change for the geographical redistribution of terrestrial and marine species at a global scale.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Abiotic and biotic constraints across reptile and amphibian ranges (2016, background): “A comparison of thermal tolerance limits and observed distributions found that terrestrial ectotherms (reptiles, amphibians, and insects) underfi ll their potential range at the warm boundary but overfi ll their potential range at the cold boundary (Sunday et al. 2012).”
Defining and observing stages of climate-mediated range shifts in marine systems (2014, background): “Geographic shifts have been well documented at range peripheries, and in particular, at the leading edges of latitudinal and elevational ranges (Hickling et al., 2006; Sunday et al., 2012).”
Climate variability predicts thermal limits of aquatic insects across elevation and latitude (2017, background): “Ectotherm CTMIN values typically track minimum temperatures in both terrestrial and aquatic environments (Addo- Bediako et al., 2000; Sunday et al., 2012), and we found similar patterns in aquatic insects.”
Causes of warm‐edge range limits: systematic review, proximate factors and implications for climate change (2014, methodology): “As one example, Sunday et al. (2012) analysed a dataset of 142 marine and terrestrial ectotherm species to test if species’ physiological limits correspond to climatic conditions at range limits.”
Life cycle ecophysiology of small pelagic fish and climate-driven changes in populations (2013, neutral): “tudes (Sunday et al., 2012).”
Fish conservation in freshwater and marine realms: status, threats and management (2016, background): “A wealth of analysis and modelling has shown that fishes and other marine organisms are extending deeper and polewards tracking climate velocities to match their thermal preferences (Sunday et al., 2012).”
Climate change and elevational range shifts: Evidence from dung beetles in two European mountain ranges (2014, background): “For ectotherms, upper thermal tolerances have been reported to be well above the average conditions experienced by the species in their geographical range (Deutsch et al., 2008; Sunday et al., 2012).”
Geographical range margins of many taxonomic groups continue to shift polewards (2015, neutral): “Taxa may also vary in the extent to which they occupy their climatic niche (Sun-day, Bates & Dulvy, 2012) and hence nonclimatic constraints could account for differences in the rate of range margin changes that we observe between groups.”
Net effects of multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: a meta‐analysis (2016, background): “…to multiple-stressor effects near their thermal tolerance limits (Heugens et al., 2001), so more detrimental stressor interactions might be expected in marine ecosystems where species’ ranges are often strongly aligned with their thermal limits (Pratchett et al., 2011; Sunday et al., 2012).”
Projecting changes in the distribution and productivity of living marine resources: A critical review of the suite of modelling approaches used in the large European project VECTORS (2016, background): “Changes in the distribution of marine organisms, including shifts towards higher latitudes or deeper waters in response to ocean warming, are well documented (Rijnsdorp et al., 2009 and Sunday et al., 2012, Hiddink et al., 2015).”