Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation

By Jennifer M. Sunday, A. E. Bates, Michael R. Kearney, Robert K. Colwell, N. Dulvy, J. Longino, R. Huey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Genetics

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Semi‐natural habitats mitigate the effects of temperature rise on wild bees (2017, background): “Additionally, suitable habitats in a matrix of exposed agricultural land can serve as refuges to ectotherms, like bees, offering them an opportunity to cool down when they reach extreme body temperatures (Sunday et al. 2014).”
Testing the climate variability hypothesis in thermal tolerance limits of tropical and temperate tadpoles (2016, background): “These may not fairly reflect the operative temperatures to which ectotherms are exposed, especially when dealing with extreme temperatures where thermoregulation may play a significant role (Sunday et al., 2014).”
Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation (2020, background): “…of climate and climatic change suggests that tropical ectotherms are more vulnerable despite lower predicted warming than at higher latitudes, because they have narrower thermal tolerance ranges (Huey et al., 2012; Sunday et al., 2014; García-Robledo et al., 2016; Rocha-Ortega et al., 2020).”
Amphibian sensitivity to habitat modification is associated with population trends and species traits (2017, background): “range size and thermal physiology, studies have shown that the thermal niche breadth of amphibians decreases toward the tropics (Sunday et al., 2014) and acclimation potential increases with range size (Bozinovic, Calosi, & Spicer, 2011).”
Local climatic changes affect biodiversity responses to land use: A review (2019, background): “These thermal safety margins, based on species' fundamental climatic niches, are then used to explore vulnerability to climate change and the role of physiology versus behaviour by species to avoid temperature extremes (Sunday et al., 2014).”
Thermoregulatory behaviour limits local adaptation of thermal niches and confers sensitivity to climate change (2015, background): “Our search was confined to values generating realistic curves ( 9 < a < 5, 0 07 < b < 0 17, c = 0 7 and b = 43), given the large diversity of curves observed among ectothermic animals (see Sunday et al. 2014).”
Latitudinal shift in thermal niche breadth results from thermal release during a climate‐mediated range expansion (2015, background): “While various hypotheses have been suggested to explain this pattern (Ara ujo et al., 2013; Hoffmann et al., 2013; Sunday et al., 2014), the potential explanatory role of recent range expansions, which are widespread among terrestrial ectotherms, has not previously been explored.”
Plasticity in thermal tolerance has limited potential to buffer ectotherms from global warming (2015, background): “While there may be several reasons why tropical taxa are more susceptible to warming than high-latitude taxa [2,15,55,56], a lack of thermal plasticity is unlikely to be one of them.”