Putting the Heat on Tropical Animals

By J. Tewksbury, R. Huey, C. Deutsch. Science, 2008

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

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Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity (2012, background): “Although they are often less obvious than changes in time or space, some physiological responses have already been reported (Johansen & Jones 2011) during the 20th century climate change, especially from many ectotherms, as their locomotion, growth, reproduction and sex determination are temperature”
Synergistic effects of elevated CO2 and temperature on the metabolic scope and activity in a shallow-water coastal decapod (Metapenaeus joyneri; Crustacea: Penaeidae) (2011, background): “For aquatic animals, tropical species are considered living close to thermal limits compared with temperate species (Tewksbury et al., 2008), so significant effects of temperature and hypercapnia could be exerted close to these limits.”
Competitive exclusion along climate gradients: energy efficiency influences the distribution of two salmonid fishes (2011, background): “It follows that the thermal scaling of performance, through several mechanisms, may be important for competitive interactions (Buckley & Roughgarden, 2006; Buckley, 2008; Tewksbury et al., 2008) potentially causing competitive exclusion due to niche retractions (Parmesan, 2006).”
Increasing ocean temperature reduces the metabolic performance and swimming ability of coral reef damselfishes (2011, background): “It follows that many tropical organisms live relatively close to their optimum temperature as well as their maximum thermal tolerance (Huey & Hertz, 1984; Tewksbury et al., 2008).”
Acclimation to predicted ocean warming through developmental plasticity in a tropical reef fish (2011, background): “Specifically, some tropical species exhibit a narrower thermal reaction norm than related temperate species and this is expected to reduce their ability to cope with temperatures above their thermal optimum (Stillman, 2003; Pörtner & Farrell, 2008; Tewksbury et al., 2008).”
Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios (2009, background): “These predictions, which agree with the eco-physiology of animals (Pörtner et al. 2007; Tewksbury et al. 2008), suggest that marine communities at the extreme ends of the environmental temperature spectrum are especially at risk from climate change.”
Elevated temperature reduces the respiratory scope of coral reef fishes (2009, background): “However, ectothermic vertebrates adapted to a life at relatively constant temperatures typically lack or have a very limited capacity for temperature acclimation (Johnston & Bennett, 1996; Tewksbury et al., 2008).”