Communications Biology (Mar 2021)

Fish heating tolerance scales similarly across individual physiology and populations

  • Nicholas L. Payne,
  • Simon A. Morley,
  • Lewis G. Halsey,
  • James A. Smith,
  • Rick Stuart-Smith,
  • Conor Waldock,
  • Amanda E. Bates

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01773-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Nicholas Payne et al. use physiological and population-level abundance data from 823 fish species to examine how heating tolerance scales at both the individual and population level. This study shows that heating tolerance declines in the lab and the wild at the same rate, and for a given temperature, individuals and populations from tropical areas have broader heating tolerances than temperate species.