Nature Communications (Feb 2021)
The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth
- Joanne M. Bennett,
- Jennifer Sunday,
- Piero Calosi,
- Fabricio Villalobos,
- Brezo Martínez,
- Rafael Molina-Venegas,
- Miguel B. Araújo,
- Adam C. Algar,
- Susana Clusella-Trullas,
- Bradford A. Hawkins,
- Sally A. Keith,
- Ingolf Kühn,
- Carsten Rahbek,
- Laura Rodríguez,
- Alexander Singer,
- Ignacio Morales-Castilla,
- Miguel Ángel Olalla-Tárraga
Affiliations
- Joanne M. Bennett
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Jennifer Sunday
- Department of Biology, McGill University
- Piero Calosi
- Département de Biologie, Chimie et Géographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski
- Fabricio Villalobos
- Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás
- Brezo Martínez
- Department of Biology and Geology, Physics & Inorganic Chemistry, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Rafael Molina-Venegas
- GloCEE - Global Change Ecology and Evolution Group, Department of Life Sciences, Universidad de Alcalá
- Miguel B. Araújo
- Department of Biogeography and Global Change, National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC
- Adam C. Algar
- School of Geography, University of Nottingham
- Susana Clusella-Trullas
- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University
- Bradford A. Hawkins
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California-Irvine
- Sally A. Keith
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
- Ingolf Kühn
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Carsten Rahbek
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen
- Laura Rodríguez
- Department of Biology and Geology, Physics & Inorganic Chemistry, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Alexander Singer
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Ignacio Morales-Castilla
- GloCEE - Global Change Ecology and Evolution Group, Department of Life Sciences, Universidad de Alcalá
- Miguel Ángel Olalla-Tárraga
- Department of Biology and Geology, Physics & Inorganic Chemistry, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21263-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Historical climate adaptation can give insight into the potential for adaptation to contemporary changing climates. Here Bennett et al. investigate thermal tolerance evolution across much of the tree of life and find different effects of ancestral climate on the subsequent evolution of ectotherms vs. endotherms.
