Journal article
Biological Impacts of Thermal Extremes: Mechanisms and Costs of Functional Responses Matter
Integrative and comparative biology, Vol.56(1), pp.73-84
07/2016
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/115810
PMID: 27252194
Abstract
Thermal performance curves enable physiological constraints to be incorporated in predictions of biological responses to shifts in mean temperature. But do thermal performance curves adequately capture the biological impacts of thermal extremes? Organisms incur physiological damage during exposure to extremes, and also mount active compensatory responses leading to acclimatization, both of which alter thermal performance curves and determine the impact that current and future extremes have on organismal performance and fitness. Thus, these sub-lethal responses to extreme temperatures potentially shape evolution of thermal performance curves. We applied a quantitative genetic model and found that beneficial acclimatization and cumulative damage alter the extent to which thermal performance curves evolve in response to thermal extremes. The impacts of extremes on the evolution of thermal performance curves are reduced if extremes cause substantial mortality or otherwise reduce fitness differences among individuals. Further empirical research will be required to understand how responses to extremes aggregate through time and vary across life stages and processes. Such research will enable incorporating passive and active responses to sub-lethal stress when predicting the impacts of thermal extremes.
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- Title
- Biological Impacts of Thermal Extremes: Mechanisms and Costs of Functional Responses Matter
- Creators
- Caroline M Williams - University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720 cmw@berkeley.eduLauren B Buckley - University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA cmw@berkeley.eduKimberly S Sheldon - University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA 82071 cmw@berkeley.eduMathew Vickers - Station d'Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale, Moulis, 09200, UMR 5321, CNRS 2 route du CNRS, France cmw@berkeley.eduHans-Otto Pörtner - Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Marine and Polar Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany cmw@berkeley.eduW Wesley Dowd - Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA 90045 cmw@berkeley.eduAlex R Gunderson - University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720 San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, USA 94132 cmw@berkeley.eduKatie E Marshall - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CanadaV6T 1Z4 cmw@berkeley.eduJonathon H Stillman - San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, USA 94132 cmw@berkeley.edu
- Publication Details
- Integrative and comparative biology, Vol.56(1), pp.73-84
- Academic Unit
- Biological Sciences, School of
- Publisher
- England
- Identifiers
- 99900548363101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article