Amanda Bretman, Claudia Fricke, Julian Baur, David Berger, Merel C Breedveld, Diego Dierick, Berta Canal Domenech, Szymon M Drobniak, Jacintha Ellers, Sinead English, Clelia Gasparini, Graziella Iossa, Malgorzata Lagisz, Shinichi Nakagawa, Daniel W A Noble, Patrice Pottier, Steven A Ramm, Melissah Rowe, Eva Schultner, Mads Schou, Pedro Simões, Paula Stockley, Ramakrishnan Vasudeva, Hester Weaving, Tom A R Price, Rhonda R Snook
Critical Thermal Limits (CTLs) gauge the physiological impact of temperature on survival or critical biological function, aiding predictions of species range shifts and climatic resilience. Two recent Drosophila species studies, using similar approaches to determine temperatures that induce sterility (Thermal Fertility Limits; TFLs), reveal that TFLs are often lower than CTLs, and that TFLs better predict both current species distributions and extinction probability. Moreover, many studies show fertility is more sensitive at less extreme temperatures than survival (Thermal Sensitivity of Fertility: TSF)...
February 13, 2024: Journal of Evolutionary Biology