Global analysis of thermal tolerance and latitude in ectotherms

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1713, 2011, Pages 1823-1830

  Sunday, Jennifer M ^a   Bates, Amanda E ^b   Dulvy, Nicholas K ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate variability hypothesis; Latitude; Macroecology; Macrophysiology; Thermal niche; Thermal tolerance breadth

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; ECTOTHERMY; MACROECOLOGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MOLLUSC; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLLUSCA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79955760830     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1295     Document Type: Article

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