GlobTherm, a global database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms.

ABSTRACT: How climate affects species distributions is a longstanding question receiving renewed interest owing to the need to predict the impacts of global warming on biodiversity. Is climate change forcing species to live near their critical thermal limits? Are these limits likely to change through natural selection? These and other important questions can be addressed with models relating geographical distributions of species with climate data, but inferences made with these models are highly contingent on non-climatic factors such as biotic interactions. Improved understanding of climate change effects on species will require extensive analysis of thermal physiological traits, but such data are both scarce and scattered. To overcome current limitations, we created the GlobTherm database. The dat

SUBMITTER: Bennett JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5848787 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature