Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude

By C. Deutsch, J. Tewksbury, R. Huey, Kimberly S. Sheldon, C. Ghalambor, D. Haak, Paul R. Martin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008

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What determines the climatic niche width of species? The role of spatial and temporal climatic variation in three vertebrate clades (2013, background): “In an influential paper, Janzen (1967) suggested that tropical species should have narrow climatic tolerances for temperature (niche breadths) due to limited temperature seasonality in the tropics.”
The Diversity of Life in African Freshwaters: Under Water, Under Threat: An Analysis of the Status and Distribution of Freshwater Species throughout Mainland Africa (2011, background): “2008), including new dams, dredging, levees, and water diversions to enhance water security for people that tropical ectotherms (‘cold-blooded’ animals such as fi sh and amphibians as well as invertebrates) will be less affected by rising temperatures, since they may already be close to their upper ”
Testing the climate variability hypothesis in thermal tolerance limits of tropical and temperate tadpoles (2016, methodology): “An operative metric to estimate the eventual occurrence of heat shock is warming tolerance (i.e. the difference between CTmax and Tmax) (Deutsch et al., 2008; Duarte et al., 2012).”
Vulnerability to climate warming and acclimation capacity of tropical and temperate coastal organisms (2016, background): “In addition, Deutsch et al. (2008), estimating the direct impact of warming on insect fitness across latitude, showed that warming in the tropics is likely to have the most deleterious effects because tropical insects are currently living very close to their critical temperature.”
Heat stress and the fitness consequences of climate change for terrestrial ectotherms (2013, methodology): “…Huey et al. 2009, 2012), many tropical ectotherms already experience environmental temperatures close to their optimal temperatures: future climate change will increase the frequency that tropical species experience temperatures above their optima, decreasing mean fitness (Deutsch et al. 2008).”
Geographic variation in vulnerability to climate warming in a tropical Caribbean lizard (2012, methodology): “C of CTmax with a 3 !”
Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation (2016, background): “Impacts for polar fauna are well known; however, evidence indicates that tropical fauna could be at an even higher risk to climate change because they are more physiologically specialized to a narrower band of tropical temperatures (Deutsch et al. 2008).”
The potential for behavioral thermoregulation to buffer “cold-blooded” animals against climate warming (2009, background): “Tropical ectotherms often have narrower thermal sensitivities (15, 24), and a very different picture emerges for activity patterns if we consider a narrower activity range (28–33 °C) (Fig.”
Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda (2021, background): “Worryingly, daily maximum temperatures in the next decades will likely be more extreme than what tropical species have ever experienced in their recent evolutionary history (Deutsch et al. 2008; Kingsolver, 2009).”
Freshwater biodiversity conservation: recent progress and future challenges (2010, background): “However, recent predictions from a model by Deutsch et al. (2008) suggest that tropical terrestrial species might be affected more seriously by rising temperatures than those closer to the poles because they are nearer their upper tolerance limits.”
Terrestrial insects and climate change: adaptive responses in key traits (2019, methodology): “The underlying premise of TPCs is that the measured fitness trait is linked to intrinsic rate of increase (R0), although rarely is an association between traits and R0 investigated (Huey & Berrigan, 2001).”
A protocol for an intercomparison of biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios (2018, background): “Ectotherms in the model do not thermoregulate, and thus are only active for the proportion of each time step during which ambient temperature was within their upper and lower activity temperature limits, estimated following (Deutsch et al., 2008).”
Climate Change Impacts on Plant Pathogens and Plant Diseases (2014, background): “These pathogens usually live in climates cooler than their physiological optima; therefore, warming is expected to enhance their fitness and the risk of epidemics of the diseases with which they are associated (Deutsch et al. 2008).”
Diapause research in insects: historical review and recent work perspectives (2019, background): “There is a consensus in the recent literature that climate warming has positive effects on insects from temperate climates (Bale et al., 2002; Deutsch et al., 2008; Altermatt, 2010).”