Too cold to handle: Climatic constraints on arboreal ants in temperate forests.

ABSTRACT: The macroscale at which we measure, model and predict climate change does not align with the microscale at which small ectotherms experience climate. To understand climate's influence on biodiversity and potential ecological effects of climate change, more work is needed to understand how ectotherm physiology relates to microclimatic temperatures. Tree canopies are an example of a habitat that produces extreme microclimates, and arthropods in tropical forest canopies are threatened by extreme heat and warming. The situation in temperate canopies, however, is less clear. Conventional wisdom suggests that winter cold limits arboreal arthropod diversity in temperate forests, but because the canopy is less buffered from extreme temperatures, summer heat could also play a role. Heat- and cold-l

SUBMITTER: Kirchner M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12134437 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature