Making sense of heat tolerance estimates in ectotherms: Lessons from Drosophila

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1169-1180

  Santos, Mauro ^a   Castañeda, Luis E ^a,b   Rezende, Enrico L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Critical thermal limits; CTmax; Genetic correlation; Gompertz equation; Repeatability; Survival probability; Thermotolerance

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; BIOASSAY; DATA SET; ECTOTHERMY; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MIMICRY; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOLERANCE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 80855139853     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01908.x     Document Type: Article

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