Leveraging physiology for insect mass rearing: effects of diet and temperature on cricket performance
Leveraging physiology for insect mass rearing: effects of diet and temperature on cricket performance
Can we improve our ability to identify climate vulnerability in ectotherm life cycles?
Abstract The capacity of ectotherms to adjust their thermal tolerance limits through evolution or acclimation seems relatively modest and highly variable, and we lack satisfying explanations for both findings given a limited understanding of what ultimately determines an organism’s thermal tolerance. Here, we test if the amount of heating an ectotherm tolerates throughout a heating event until organismal failure scales with temperature’s non-linear influence on biological rates. To account for the non-linear influence of temperature on biological rates on heating tolerance, we rescaled the duration of heating events of 316 ectothermic taxa acclimated to different temperatures and describe the biological rate-corrected heating duration.
Ectotherm heat limits track biological rates
The Irish Ecological Association Conference