Thermal Biology

Recent Papers

Stochasticity and Infectious Disease Dynamics: Density and Weather Effects on a Fungal Insect Pathogen

Colin H. Kyle, Jiawei Liu, Molly E. Gallagher, Vanja Dukic, and Greg Dwyer

Climate Warming, Resource Availability, and the Metabolic Meltdown of Ectotherms

Raymond B. Huey and Joel G. Kingsolver

Trade-Offs in Cold Resistance at the Northern Range Edge of the Common Woodland Ant Aphaenogaster picea (Formicidae)

Andrew D. Nguyen, Megan Brown, Jordan Zitnay, Sara Helms Cahan, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Amy Arnett, and Aaron M. Ellison

Antagonistic Responses of Exposure to Sublethal Temperatures: Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity Coincides with a Reduction in Organismal Performance

Anthony L. Gilbert and Donald B. Miles

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Gilbert.html

Predicting the Thermal and Allometric Dependencies of Disease Transmission via the Metabolic Theory of Ecology

Devin Kirk, Pepijn Luijckx, Andrijana Stanic, and Martin Krkošek

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayKirk.html

Upscaling Microclimatic Conditions into Body Temperature Distributions of Ectotherms
Juan G. Rubalcaba, Sidney F. Gouveia, and Miguel A. Olalla-Tárraga
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayRubalcaba.html

Two-Year Bee, or Not Two-Year Bee? How Voltinism Is Affected by Temperature and Season Length in a High-Elevation Solitary Bee
Jessica R. K. Forrest, Regan Cross, and Paul J. CaraDonna
Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprForrest.html

On the Interplay among Ambient Temperature, Basal Metabolic Rate, and Body Mass

Daniel E. Naya, Hugo Naya, and Craig R. White

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctNaya.html

Extreme Insolation: Climatic Variation Shapes the Evolution of Thermal Tolerance at Multiple Scales

Kaitlin M. Baudier, Catherine L. D’Amelio, Rumaan Malhotra, Michael P. O’Connor, and Sean O’Donnell

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/SepBaudier.html

Temperature Drives Epidemics in a Zooplankton-Fungus Disease System: A Trait-Driven Approach Points to Transmission via Host Foraging

Marta S. Shocket, Alexander T. Strauss, Jessica L. Hite, Maja Šljivar, David J. Civitello, Meghan A. Duffy, Carla E. Cáceres, and Spencer R. Hall

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprShocket-A.html

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Thermal Niche Partitioning

Daniel J. Smith and Priyanga Amarasekare

Temperature-Dependent Growth and Fission Rate Plasticity Drive Seasonal and Geographic Changes in Body Size in a Clonal Sea Anemone

Will H. Ryan

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebRyan.html

Temperature-Dependent Species Interactions Shape Priority Effects and the Persistence of Unequal Competitors

Tess Nahanni Grainger, Adam Ivan Rego, and Benjamin Gilbert

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebGrainger.html

Toward a Periodic Table of Niches, or Exploring the Lizard Niche Hypervolume

Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Nicolás Pelegrin, Daniel B. Fitzgerald, and Kirk O. Winemiller

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/NovPianka.html

Note

Warming-Induced Changes to Body Size Stabilize Consumer-Resource Dynamics

Matthew M. Osmond, Matthew A. Barbour, Joey R. Bernhardt, Matthew W. Pennell, Jennifer M. Sunday, and Mary I. O’Connor

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneOsmond.html

Why Have Multiple Plastic Responses? Interactions between Color Change and Heat Avoidance Behavior in Battus philenor Larvae

Matthew E. Nielsen and Daniel R. Papaj

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneNielsen.html

Evolution of Thermal Reaction Norms in Seasonally Varying Environments

Priyanga Amarasekare and Christopher Johnson