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SUBMITTER: Bennett JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7895938 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bennett Joanne M JM Sunday Jennifer J Calosi Piero P Villalobos Fabricio F Martínez Brezo B Molina-Venegas Rafael R Araújo Miguel B MB Algar Adam C AC Clusella-Trullas Susana S Hawkins Bradford A BA Keith Sally A SA Kühn Ingolf I Rahbek Carsten C Rodríguez Laura L Singer Alexander A Morales-Castilla Ignacio I Olalla-Tárraga Miguel Ángel MÁ
Nature communications 20210219 1
Understanding how species' thermal limits have evolved across the tree of life is central to predicting species' responses to climate change. Here, using experimentally-derived estimates of thermal tolerance limits for over 2000 terrestrial and aquatic species, we show that most of the variation in thermal tolerance can be attributed to a combination of adaptation to current climatic extremes, and the existence of evolutionary 'attractors' that reflect either boundaries or optima in thermal tole ...[more]