Article: Non-climatic thermal adaptation: Implications for species' responses to climate warming

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TitleNon-climatic thermal adaptation: Implications for species' responses to climate warming
AuthorsMarshall, DJ2
McQuaid, CD3
Williams, GA1
KeywordsClimate change
Global warming
Thermal adaptation
Issue Date2010
PublisherThe Royal Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org
CitationBiology Letters, 2010, v. 6 n. 5, p. 669-673 [How to Cite?]
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0233
AbstractThere is considerable interest in understanding how ectothermic animals may physiologically and behaviourally buffer the effects of climate warming. Much less consideration is being given to how organisms might adapt to non- climatic heat sources in ways that could confound predictions for responses of species and communities to climate warming. Although adaptation to non-climatic heat sources (solar and geothermal) seems likely in some marine species, climate warming predictions for marine ectotherms are largely based on adaptation to climatically relevant heat sources (air or surface sea water temperature). Here, we show that non-climatic solar heating underlies thermal resistance adaptation in a rocky-eulittoralfringe snail. Comparisons of the maximum temperatures of the air, the snail's body and the rock substratum with solar irradiance and physiological performance show that the highest body temperature is primarily controlled by solar heating and re-radiation, and that the snail's upper lethal temperature exceeds the highest climatically relevant regional air temperature by approximately 22°C. Non-climatic thermal adaptation probably features widely among marine and terrestrial ectotherms and because it could enable species to tolerate climatic rises in air temperature, it deserves more consideration in general and for inclusion into climate warming models. © 2010 The Royal Society.
ISSN1744-9561
2011 Impact Factor: 3.762
2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.265
DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0233
PubMed Central IDPMC2936162
ReferencesReferences in Scopus
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dc.contributor.authorMarshall, DJ
dc.contributor.authorMcQuaid, CD
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, GA
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-31T13:20:07Z
dc.date.available2010-10-31T13:20:07Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThere is considerable interest in understanding how ectothermic animals may physiologically and behaviourally buffer the effects of climate warming. Much less consideration is being given to how organisms might adapt to non- climatic heat sources in ways that could confound predictions for responses of species and communities to climate warming. Although adaptation to non-climatic heat sources (solar and geothermal) seems likely in some marine species, climate warming predictions for marine ectotherms are largely based on adaptation to climatically relevant heat sources (air or surface sea water temperature). Here, we show that non-climatic solar heating underlies thermal resistance adaptation in a rocky-eulittoralfringe snail. Comparisons of the maximum temperatures of the air, the snail's body and the rock substratum with solar irradiance and physiological performance show that the highest body temperature is primarily controlled by solar heating and re-radiation, and that the snail's upper lethal temperature exceeds the highest climatically relevant regional air temperature by approximately 22°C. Non-climatic thermal adaptation probably features widely among marine and terrestrial ectotherms and because it could enable species to tolerate climatic rises in air temperature, it deserves more consideration in general and for inclusion into climate warming models. © 2010 The Royal Society.
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dc.identifier.citationBiology Letters, 2010, v. 6 n. 5, p. 669-673 [How to Cite?]
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0233
dc.identifier.citeulike7862241
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0233
dc.identifier.epage673
dc.identifier.hkuros181090
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000281739100027
dc.identifier.issn1744-9561
2011 Impact Factor: 3.762
2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.265
dc.identifier.issue5
dc.identifier.openurl
dc.identifier.pmcidPMC2936162
dc.identifier.pmid20375046
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-77958485921
dc.identifier.spage669
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/127345
dc.identifier.volume6
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherThe Royal Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofBiology Letters
dc.relation.referencesReferences in Scopus
dc.subject.meshAdaptation, Physiological
dc.subject.meshBody Temperature
dc.subject.meshClimate Change
dc.subject.meshSnails - physiology
dc.subject.meshSunlight
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subjectGlobal warming
dc.subjectThermal adaptation
dc.titleNon-climatic thermal adaptation: Implications for species' responses to climate warming
dc.typeArticle
Author Affiliations
  1. The University of Hong Kong
  2. University of Brunei Darussalam
  3. Rhodes University